The journalistic production in the prison: press and power in the limit situation

Abstract

The present paper studies a place usually overlooked by society; a location for which the ones who are considered unapt to establish the social interaction are taken: the prisons of Rio de Janeiro. Our goal is to observe closely the power relations that are operating in this scenario inhabited by these “characters without voices”, generally responsible for urban violence. This article proposes to trace a brief portrait of Evaristo de Moraes Prison, in Rio de Janeiro, that begins in the “out-of-walls” universe and ends at understanding the way that disciplinary institution acts in bodies and minds of those who are cloistered.