Informação e a população carcerária: estudo de usuários de informação na Penitenciária José Maria Alkmin, Ribeirão das Neves - MG

Abstract

It explores the issue of information within the imprisioned population of Minas Gerais through an study of use and users of information developed in the José Maria Alkmin Penitentiary, in Ribeirão das Neves district. It applies the theoretical Sense-Making approach developed by Brenda Dervin to diagnosis the informational construction practices among theprisoners. It uses the ethnomethodology of Harold Garfinkel for the description of routines established in the captives society. It reviews the literature on Sociology of Crime and the criminal justice system and describes the development of the study in information needs anduses in the Information Science area. It presents a parallel between Sense-Making and ethnomethodology theories. It identifies the main component elements of the penitentiary context. It points the main practices about needs, data appropriation and use of information tocertain aspects of the convicted reality: legal support, social organization, assistance to work and education, contact with the media and jail´s exterior society.