Vidas fissuradas: mulheres negras e o tráfico de drogas em Porto Nacional/TO e região.

Abstract

The present work is dedicated to understanding the increasing increase of incarceration and treatment for black women arrested in Porto Nacional-TO and region for the crime of drug trafficking. Through the survey of the National Survey of Infopen Women Penitentiary Information 2nd Edition 2018, we will analyze this scenario of incarceration of black women in the countries of Latin America and especially in Brazil, where we can see that we had a great ncrease in the last twelve years. As this research demonstrates, this increase is a condition that affects all Brazilian federations, including the state of Tocantins, which delimits a focus of research interest. The hypothesis here is that this increase was favored by the new drug policy law, enacted in 2006, which resulted in the hardening of the penalty for drug trafficking offenses. This crime has leveraged countless prisons, with the black and female population hardest hit by this prohibitionist and racist policy. Because of this, the objective of the research encompasses the discussion of gender, race and class, addressing issues such as institutional racism in face of this new law, and the historical condition of the black population, which is in vulnerability and social exclusion. The situation of black women facing this crime with the involvement of drug trafficking has been worrying, given that it is a repressive policy with harsh penalties imposed by law and also by the consequences of institutional racism. Regarding the number of prisoners, Brazil occupies the third largest prison population in the world. Given the social roles historically occupied by black women in a patriarchal and slave society, it becomes relevant to investigate the specificities of female incarceration through the intersectional approach.