Corpos públicos: por uma analítica da política LGBTQIAPN+ no sistema penal em Minas Gerais

Abstract

In recent years there has been a dizzying increase in incarceration, following a perspective of social outcry against impunity and public security assuming a prominent role in the political scene. The rise of conservatism has left its marks on the resumption of arms policy, the strengthening of the policing of everyday life and the scrapping of social policies, configuring necropower over the right to life and dignity of people, especially those who survive excluded from access to production and consumption. In recent decades, the Penal State has been strengthening, aimed at repressing and canceling differences, in the face of social inequalities, in addition to a pandemic that has devastated the world. Thus, through the devaluation of life, the prison system of Minas Gerais produced another barbarism, starting in 2021, a series of self-mutilations and deaths of LGBTQIAPN+ people held in what was conventionally called a Prison Unit exclusively for the custody of this population. To date, there have been 39 deaths of these subjects of dissent on sexuality and gender in prisons in Minas Gerais, of which 18 occurred in the institution created to hold these people with greater quality and attention. This research, given the great difficulties in accessing information from security areas, carried out data collection on official websites, completing the information with questions carried out via the Access to Information Law, seeking to understand the functioning of Minas Gerais prison institutions, in perspective of reflecting on public policy aimed at sexual and gender dissidents deprived of freedom. It was thus realized that all penal policy is built with capitalism and patriarchalism as its pillars, on a basis that there is an intense appreciation of masculinized performances, with a predominance of punitivism and the failure of so-called resocialization. The deaths, mostly defined as self-extermination, lead us to think about how mental health and, in this context, psychology, has been carried out in these total institutions. Our desire is to be able to build a model of society that overcomes the ills of neoliberal capitalism and, in fact, presents more justice, equality and freedom to all.