Abstract
This is exploratory qualitative research carried out with judicial criminal processes of sentence enforcement in Brazil, which analyzes sentence remission as a contested legal instrument torn between narratives of resocialization, disciplinary impulses, and punitive dynamics. We explore how judicial and penitentiary actors articulate discourses about work and education in contemporary Brazilian prisons, with the main objective of understanding the dynamics raised by the remission of the sentence through these activities. Considering that requests for remission represent a privileged place for analyzing the dynamics of government and bureaucratic management of the prison flow, important ambivalences were identified between the centrality of the resocializing ideal, as an organizer of interactions between actors, and the displacement of work and education as bureaucratic operators in the execution of criminal sentences.
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