Do outro lado das grades: o trabalho dos agentes de segurança penitenciária em um complexo penitenciário de Minas Gerais

Abstract

This study aimed to analyze the work activity of correctional officers in a Penitentiary of Minas Gerais, in trying to understand the daily reality experienced by them, noting the organization, processes and working conditions. Were used as methods of research observations, informal conversations and interviews, and documentary research and application of a short questionnaire. The field studies of work is extensive, involving researchers from various fields and more different groups of workers, however, certain categories of workers still generate little interest from scholars. How to understand the theoretical work, we used the Clínica da Atividade and Ergologia (Clinical Activity and Ergology), wich want to put the knowledge worker in the center of the analysis. Given the above, we highlight some situations experienced by prison guards from the moment they "choose" to follow the profession: working in prison significantly affect everyday life. Life outside work began to be directed by everything that lives inside job. Agents now have some care about security, do not attend the same environments frequented before and are viewed with "different eyes" by locals. Finally, this paper intends to show the process of “prisionalization” that both inmates how many agents face as they live "in this world." These elements constitute a challenge to the conquest of labor rights and appreciation of the work of the agents.