Porosity of Prisional Institutions: Effects on Bodies and Tactics of Adaptation

Abstract

This paper discusses the characteristics of a prison institution in the perspective of closure, or in the various applications that transform in that Goffman conceptualizes as "total institutions." In complement, the discipline, analyzed in the light of Foucault, is at the heart of promoting this closure. The metodological procedure is the comparative study with these two authors cited in complement with the newspapers that discuss the current fragility of prisons. It is verified that persons promotes numerous tactics to adapt, in order to make bearable the experience within the prisons. Thus, the work points to the emergence of a tactic in which it is possible the reversion or appropriations of the prisional space, causing therefore the porosity of prisional institutions.