Equity and Care Network: the trajectories of black women leaving the prison system
Incarceration. Black Women. Exempts from the Prison System. Health Care.
In Brazil, we currently have approximately 832,295 thousand people in situations of deprivation and/or restriction of freedom. With regard to people released from the prison system, it is almost impossible to measure the population due to the lack of data. Women account for around 5% of people in situations of deprivation and/or restriction of freedom, however, it is worth noting that these, despite being relatively few, are involved in processes that mark a greater trivialization of life and greater violation of rights human, considering that they are achieved by the intersectionalities of structural oppressions (social class, gender identity, race/color, sexual orientation, place of origin, among others.). Thus, leaving prison is also a process of maintaining deprivation, attributes acquired through social stigma and violations of social rights and lack of access to goods and services. In this sense, this study aims to analyze the access of black women released from the prison system to intersectoral care networks. To this end, we adopted the dialectical historical method as an analytical approach. It is necessary to point out that this method will dialogue with the participant observation technique and the interview technique along the lines of life history, based on the analysis of the narratives of five women released from the prison system. The chosen analysis scenario was the Social Office of Paraíba, a public service, responsible for welcoming and monitoring people pre-egress and egress from the prison system, as well as their families and its purpose is to enable access to social rights, with the aim of to break the cycle of violence. With this work, we point out the scarcity of studies in the field of Public Health regarding the health-disease process and care for people deprived of liberty and, above all, women released from the prison system. Furthermore, the structural oppressions of Brazilian society, maintained in the prison-asylum logic, are reflections of the capitalism-colonialism-racism-sexism articulation practiced and renewed in social institutions, such as the health institution.