DISCURSIVITIES ABOUT THE PRISON SYSTEM: THE CIRCULATION OF IDEOLOGICALLY MARKED SENSES
SPEECH; PRISONAL SYSTEM; CAPITALISM; CIRCULATION OF SENSES.
Numerous discourses about the prison system and about prisoners circulate in society. Such speeches foment the imaginary that whoever is in prison deserves to be punished in the cruelest possible ways, because “if he is there it is because he did something”. Just as they are discourses that, in a way, exempt the State from its responsibilities with people deprived of liberty, after all "a good bandit is a dead bandit", at the same time, they seek to erase the social, economic and political factors that select who should and deserves to go to prison and increase the prison mass, that is, they disregard class struggles in the incarceration process, since “a full prison is the problem of those who committed the crime”. In this way, the State and the capitalist system come out in profit. So, the objective that is outlined is to analyze how the ideology of the capitalist system reverberates in the discourses about the prison system and how, also, through the discursive process, the capitalist system, through the State, through the functioning of cynicism, benefits from the prison system. Therefore, with the work still in development, the Discourse Analysis proposed by Michael Pêcheux (1990, 1995, 2005, 2007) in France and developed by Eni Orlandi (2004, 2007, 2012, 2013) is adopted as a theoretical perspective, in Brazil. Therefore, the corpus selected for analysis so far is made up of discourses that, according to the interpretation gesture that is made, point to the arrested subject as the only person to blame for his imprisonment and disregard the relationship between language, subject and history in the construction of meanings.