Presos que menstruam : um olhar sobre os presídios no Rio Grande do Sul.

Abstract

This dissertation is about menstruating prisoners, human rights and development, through an approach that considers freedom as a means of human development. To understand how the deprivation of substantive freedoms and the failure to guarantee the wellbeing of women who are incarcerated in the prisons of Rio Grande do Sul, during the execution of their sentence, are able to influence human development. Specifically, the aim was to determine how the state deals with the curtailment of women's freedoms in the prisons of Porto Alegre, Lajeado and Santa Cruz do Sul. Thus, the research was developed based on the concept of human development, brought by Amartya Sen, having, as a guiding thread, his vision of development related to the improvement of life that one leads, the freedoms that one enjoys and the strengthening of individual freedoms, considering of utmost importance the correction of inequalities that can undermine the welfare and hinder the real human development of women incarcerated in prisons in Rio Grande do Sul. This research analyzed the role of the State, represented here by the prison institutions, as the guarantor of human rights for women and, consequently, the provider of human development. In methodological terms, it was opted for qualitative research, intermediated by technical instruments of bibliographical exploratory research and semi-structured interviews. For the State and society as a whole, there are, in the prisons of Rio Grande do Sul, 41,189 prisoners, but it is necessary to pay attention to the fact that, every month, 2,079 prisoners menstruate and these women cannot continue to be ignored by the prison system. Thus, the research allowed us to understand how much the State, while guarantor of fundamental rights, is not prepared to receive women in the Brazilian Penitentiary System, perhaps in the prisons of Rio Grande do Sul and how much there is the need to build public policies of human development for this prison population, which has its freedom curtailed every day by a State that should be the greatest guarantor of human rights.