Incarcerated sexualities: difficulties of remission of the penalty because of work to LBGTI individuals in the national penitentiary system

Abstract

When the intersection between prison and those individuals who perform non-hegemonic sexualities and gender identities is conceived, it is clear that the disruption of rights caused by the prison system is enhanced. In prison, the discourses, values ​​and practices of heterosexual sexuality are reorganized, which makes individuals in the LGBTI population subject to double segregation and marginalization that intensifies the ills of imprisonment itself. This work questions how being LGBTI affects opportunities for the remission of sentences for work in the national prison system. For this, the deductive method is used, qualifying, in terms of ends, as exploratory and descriptive, and, in terms of means, theoretical research, of bibliographic and documentary type, and empirical, based on a study case conducted at the Penal Institute of Campo Grande, MS. The research concludes that the prejudice, both of the other inmates, and of certain penitentiary agents, interferes on the enjoyment of the right to work and to penal remission, as well as that there is still a difficulty of insertion of these dissenting people to the services offered by the prison institution, strictly based on the fact that they are built from non-hegemonic sexual orientations and gender identities.