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A document containing a prison policy management model was examined during a study of the governmental categories established to address confinement in Brazil. Based on Bourdieu and Hertz, an attempt was made to develop an ethnography attentive to the expressions used to refer to populations and institutions so that they could reveal ongoing terminological changes and maintenance. Deprivation of liberty is traversed by public policies and vice versa, pointing to prisons as "intersectoral spaces" and prisoners as "people deprived of liberty". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A fundamental government initiative to change the living conditions of deinstitutionalized Brazilian people, the De Volta para Casa (Back Home) Program is formed by some elements, including the psychosocial rehabilitation financial aid. Thirty-four state and academic documents from ordinances to papers were gathered to identify which elements of the Program permeate the records and debates about it throughout the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform, converging with the studies of Juarez Pereira Furtado and Ligia Maria Vieira-da-Silva about the dynamics of scientific and bureaucratic fields, such as mental health. Furthermore, we ethnographed five events that gathered institutionalized people and other agents from this field. We noticed the remarkable presence of the Therapeutic Residential Services (SRT) as an element of the referred Program both in the records and the scientific debates, while the mentioned financial aid was highlighted mainly in the government records. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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is an attempt to understand the prison visitors' perspectives on the crimes attributed to imprisoned women and on the places of female confinement. In this ethnography conducted in two female prisons, we note that many of the interlocutors tend to justify the imprisonment of women by linking them to a "thug" partner. There were no mentions to crimes committed for family sustenance, which is out of step with recent literature on female imprisonment. From the narratives, we note that women arrested for similar crimes are placed in prisons with very different means of control and punishment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An introduction is presented in which author discusses article on topics including focuses on assessing the social aspects of incarceration in Rio de Janeiro in light of core issued in the public policy process and a contribution from the social sciences with the Brazilian government dimension.

In the context of consolidation of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform and the National Health Plan in the prison system, people in a security measure and the Hospitals of Custody and Psychiatric Treatment indicate a challenge to the realization of the principles and guidelines of the Unified Health System The description and analysis of the Program of Integral Attention to Crazy Abuser (PAILI-GO) is a strategy to delineate the limits and possibilities of building actions and health services for this vulnerable population. A visit to the program showed the potential for multiplication of government experience in the state, able to extinguish the security measure of some participants, thereby contributing to a process of social reintegration immersed in inter-sectoral action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study is to understand recent transformations in penitentiary health care management in Brazil, during the implementation of the National Policy for Comprehensive Health Care for People Deprived of Liberty in the Prison System, and the closure of the National Sector for Penitentiary Health Care. The scientific problem investigated is the language of penitentiary health care policy. The theoretical-methodological framework adopted is Pierre Bourdieu's genetic structuralism. In this manner, we carry out an analysis of documents and public statements in search of State categories and classifications. We note the consolidation of a state classification that separates the 'penitentiary' domain from the 'prison' domain, as well as the creation of the State category of 'person deprived of liberty in the prison system'. Penitentiary health care management constitutes itself as a question of primary care.

In the context of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform family members and neighbors of psychiatric patients have been urged to ' participate' in the public policies, mainly as ' social support' although officially considered ' partners' . This reconfiguration of the relationship between State and civil society is reflected in the directive that the services have to take over the responsibility for territories, a change in the logic of supply and demand aimed at stimulating extra-hospital services such as Psychosocial Care Centers, the object of this study, to provide care to the population of a certain geographical area. The purpose of this article is to investigate the psychosocial technologies produced in this specific political, institutional and historical context such as mediation of social changes and conflicts. Among the analyzed materials are the medical records indicating the involvement of the social actors in the social support network.