Abstract
Punitive practices had been historically presented either as a way to guarantee the labor availability, or as a way of allocating those who do not fit into to the “correct” social functioning. Crazy, beggars, poor people, among others, form a group of “idle” people who are on the margins of society and are cited as possible targets for total institutions containment walls, with the participation of psychology professionals. Cloistered, it is easier to produce disciplined bodies and, therefore, able to work. This paper aims to promote the discussion about the relationship between work and marginality, seeking to create condition and offer tools in order to question the psi practices in the prison system. This text also intends to discuss he public-private-partnership model on the penitentiary complex. More than the unforeseen combination of quality and efficiency stated by the privatization of prison’s ideologues, what it seems to occur is the conversion of the prison into a lucrative way to control those that do not participate in the mode of capitalist production. If outside bars they are deleted from the mode of production, within them, the same system that excludes them, transforms them into raw material in order to achieve the goal of this privatization project: profit.
Marginalization; Work; Incarceration; Prisons; Public-Private-Partnership