BLACK WOMEN AND EVERYDAY PRECARIOUSNESS: an analysis of the selectivity and precariousness of inmates in the Maranhão penitentiary system between the years 2018 and 2023.
Precariousness; Black Women; Racism; Incarceration
The research discusses the precariousness of the black population, especially women, as a historical and institutionalized phenomenon, guided by the sexism and racism present. It is addressed that the experiences of black women are disregarded, due to their constant erasure in the social horizon, using the concept of precariousness to understand the imposed vulnerability processes and their collective action capacities. In this context, it is argued that the justice systems do not offer the necessary tools to change this situation, given that they are based on the dynamics of racial inequality and end up contributing to this precariousness. The traditional ways of access to justice for black women are ineffective, conceiving the need to employ resistance through alternative means to guarantee rights. One of the most evident processes regarding this precariousness is the dynamics of incarceration of black women. To illustrate this reality, the research makes an excerpt which uses data related to incarceration in Maranhão, proposing to trace the profile of women in custody and outline their personal processes in the face of this dynamic, bringing concrete cases that can corroborate such a profile. This study resorted to the survey of bibliographic data, as well as data referring to the prison reality of Maranhão, with the request to the competent sector, and the selection of procedural records related to the theme