A saúde da mulher em situação de cárcere no Conjunto Penal de Feira de Santana

Abstract

This study aims to contribute to the knowledge about female crime, specifically, the situation that health lies prey who are in custody in the Penal set of Feira de Santana. Attempts to trace the socioeconomic profile of internal define the health status of those incarcerated women and highlight how the process of prisonization developed in the prison system brings to prey consequences. To achieve this purpose was developed fourteen semi-structured interviews with women in jail situation , were also carried out research, CPFS data collection and talk with the health care team to find out the most frequent diseases of this kind. The research was produced qualitative and quantitative nature of a descriptive nature, and the interviews were evaluated by discourse analysis. In this study it was found that most respondents prey was incarcerated due to drug trafficking and narcotics, and are recognized as color / brown / brown race; they have low education and currently much is single, since some were abandoned by their comrades after being arrested. Analysis of the interviews indicated that the practice of crimes mostly occurs by a combination of social, economic and cultural factors, and there is no single reason for this event. Concomitant to this, there was a lack of effective prison health policies and the consequences that process of prisonization brings the prey, both in loss of ties with their families, but also in keeping the crime.