EDUCATION FOR WOMEN IN PRISONS: A HUMAN RIGHT

Abstract

Education is a social right, expressed by the Federal Constitution of 1988, by the Penal Execution Law (1984) and reaffirmed by the Law of Guidelines and Bases of Education (1996). Although the right to education is guaranteed by Brazilian law, there are still issues that need to be discussed with regard to access to this right in prison. Thus, the general objective of this study is to discuss education for women deprived of liberty as a human right. The methodology adopted is anchored in bibliographic research in a qualitative approach. The results found corroborate the invisibility of women deprived of liberty not only in terms of gender needs but also in full access to human and social rights in education, which, although access is equal for men and women, nevertheless becomes slower for women, perpetuating in society the same patriarchal and exclusionary behaviors of the past.