Prisão intelectual: a censura do Estado em livros que compõem projetos de remição de pena.

Resumo (EN)

Remission sentence by reading does not have the force of law, but, by resolution 391 of the National Council of Justice (2021), it allows inmates to reduce a few days in prison. In February 2020, however, the Penitentiary Administration Secretariat (SAP), through its Foundation (Funap/SP), censored 12 books that would be part of the itinerant collection for São Paulo prisons. We sought to understand, through Bakhtinian discourse analysis (2010), possible reasons that made these books subject to censorship, but we selected for analysis only Cabo de Guerra, by Ivone Benedetti, for having been a finalist for an important literary prize in 2010 and for its verbal and imagery narrative. The proposed discussion is based on three axes: history of censorship in Brazil;; purposes of penalties and problematization of Brazilian policy on punishment. We recognize that the dehumanization of convicts in national prisons is aligned with the technical-legal view, despite the national legislation, which values the humanist booklet. We conclude that the silencing and marginalization of prisoners is enhanced by actions such as Funap/SP, especially when it prevents them from knowing books that deal with aspects of life of which they are victims and perpetrators: betrayal, fear, violence and politics.