A REMIÇÃO PELA LEITURA: A EDUCAÇÃO COMO UM INSTRUMENTO DE TRANSFORMAÇÃO SOCIAL NO CONTEXTO PRISIONAL / REDUCTION OF TIME SERVED THROUGH READING: EDUCATION AS A TOOL FOR SOCIAL CHANGE IN THE PRISONAL CONTEXT

Abstract

This article analyses the reviews produced by reentering offenders participating in the “Redemption through reading” project. The project highlights the importance of education as a transformation and social reinstatement tool, it was instituted by the Minas Gerais Military Court of Justice (TJMG) as a form of viability of the remission of sentence through study, established in Law 7.2010, of the 11th of July of 1984, known as the penal execution law. The proposition is a collaboration between the Tutorial Education Program (TEP) of the Federal University of Viçosa’s pedagogy course, with the public defender’s office and the Visconde do Rio Branco (VRB) correctional facility. The accomplished study focused on the analysis and observation of data obtained in 2023, from the reviews made by reentering offenders of the VRB correctional facility. Using those reviews as main documentary corpus for the analysis achievement, it was possible to extract relevant data, such as the participants’ education level, plagiarized reviews, identification of unreadable texts and final review notes. In total, 307 reviews were analyzed, and it was determined that the project, as social policy, forms as an effective tool leading to changes in the Prison Units, developing the involvement of reading and writing practices that plays an important part in educational process continuity and the social reinstatement of the reentering offender after serving your confinement. In summary, the importance of efforts that focus on education as a powerful tool to human development.