Stemming from the RedSig referential and Spinozian philosophy, this work had as objective to investigate ways of life produced in and by the prison, anchored on the knowledge of some constraints of the process of constitution of people who live in prisons. Two interviews with four interns of Instituto de Readaptação Social (Social Readaptation Institute) of Vila Velha (Espírito Santo State, Brazil), were performed, one year apart. The analysis of the interviews proceeded on the methodological approach of Discursive Practices as production of meaning, implying the adoption of a constructionist posture and re-signification of the relation between subject and object outside the crystallized idea of duality. The four investigated cases are presented after the highlight of the life histories of the interviewed subjects, of their feelings towards prison life experience and their ways of life.
prisons; inmates; ways of life; constraints