Arquitetura penitenciária: análise da ala feminina do Complexo Penitenciário de Pedrinhas em São Luís - MA

Abstract

Brazilian prisons in general have an architecture based on the needs of men, as they are the majority of inmates worldwide, but when talking about an environment for female prisoners there is not always an adaptation of needs and they go through terrible situations ranging from lack of availability of personal hygiene items until the absence of fundamental places such as nurseries and daycare centers, causing pregnant prisoners to be forced to abandon their children shortly after birth. The case study presented in this work was done in the female wing of the Pedrinhas Penitentiary Complex in São Luís - MA, where the architectural design of the place was analyzed in order to identify the main successes and errors of the project, also analyzing the vision that employees have of the place, through questionnaires, so that it was possible to obtain solutions that would help to improve the building and that could be a basis for other reforms or in the construction of new penitentiaries.