Do senso comum jurídico às funções latentes do trabalho prisional brasileiro.

This article is a succinct way of an analysis about the prison work, based on contributions from the studies developed by the Critical Criminology, trying to relate what is proposed by the rule of law in Brazil on this topic and therefore the effects of its application in within the Brazilian prison system. The discussion will start from the historiographical study on the arrest, the relationship between work and prison, using, for both, the major literatures that deal with the respective theme. From the analysis of the rise of the prison and its natural development over time, it will seek to address the political, social and economic aspects that influenced their transformations and enable the understanding of the current penal model adopted. Finally, based on all theoretical argument developed, it will be done a few remarks on the proposed issue. In other words, based on the ideas raised throughout the text, crave, without greater pretensions, clarify and demystify the views expressed by common sense and, consequently, absorbed as truth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]