In this work it will be presented a characterization of the prison security agents (PSAs) work conditions and an intervention that culminated in the constitution of a space for the psychic suffering workers' assistance. Thirty semidirected interviews with APSs from a closed regimen prison had been carried through. The PSAs speech had pointed the following distress generating situations: constant risk of physical violence exposition in the daily routine, concern about their relatives' safety, the exposition to illnesses as tuberculosis, hepatitis C and HIV, perception of mental health degradation, monotonous work and cloister like sensation in some functions, negative social impressions of their work by the community, low remuneration and restriction of the health services offered to the PSAs and their dependants. After the recognition of the determinative health aggravating factors, a space for the attendance was organized, with the participation of students who carried through a professionalizing period of training in Psychology. This space evolved from a subjective mobilization to a confrontation with the institutional discipline dynamics in relation to the workers' affection dynamics. It offered assistance to the suffering of the workers and it was organized in a modality of emergency care in mental health and individual meeting with the workmen.
Work; Mental health; Prisons
