Pecado, punição e penitência: a escola de reforma de Porto Alegreno contexto de estabelecimentos prisionais femininos da América Latina

Abstract

The present work of graduation conclusion aimed to understand and analyze the reasons that led Porto Alegre to install the Reform School in the context of women's prisons in Latin America. Classified as the first penitentiary in Brazil, the School of Reform was founded in the city of Porto Alegre in the year 1936 after the signature of the contract between the Government of the State of Rio Grande do Sul and the Congregation Nossa Senhora da Caridade do Bom Pastor d'Angers, a French Institute which established the feminine rehabilitation of delinquent women through the practice of Christian penance for moral cure. The methodology applied was based on the survey of bibliographic review about women's prisons in Brazil and in the countries of Argentina and Chile, as well as the use of documental support about the Reform School located in the press of the time in Hemeroteca Digital. It was found that the reason for the installation of the Reform School in the capital of Rio Grande do Sul was linked to Decree No. 7.601 of 1938, established through the Code of Criminal Procedure of Rio Grande do Sul promulgated in 1898. As a partial result, it was also verified the condition of the state of Rio Grande do Sul's frontier with South American countries for the installation of the Reform School.