Geografia carcerária sistema prisional tocantinense – lugar e território: a produção cultural na vivência entre grades na cadeia de Porto Nacional-TO.

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to seek to understand how cultural activity is produced in the lives of people who are deprived of liberty in the prison system of the state of Tocantins and, at the same time, to verify the cultural connection that exists with the outside world, thus analyzing prison life and prison culture in parallel with the reality of our society. This work also seeks to appropriate the use of the geographic categories of place and territory and its applicability within the prison and seeks to identify, through the bibliography of great names in Geography, the best way to interpret the dissemination and despondency of prison culture within the state of Tocantins. In this way, the work will address the forms of communication, cultural artistic expressions, games, rules and the daily way of life of the inmates. Living in prison revealed the assimilation of culture and the cultural marks that each ex-inmate person takes to rest of his life. Although the state has many prison units, the work is based on the five largest in the state, which is more than enough to enter the cultural universe behind bars.