From the Paintings to the Cells

the Pedagogical Use of Comics in the Prison System

Abstract

The scope of this research is to demonstrate the relevance of reading comics within the prison system with the pedagogical purpose of developing cognitive and critical skills through enchantment and image development that are characteristics of this media. To this end, the "Vira-Lata" project was verified, which was implemented in the Carandiru detention house in São Paulo with the aim of raising awareness about the risks of transmission of the HIV virus that proliferated in the prison environment and, more recently, in the remission of the sentence through the reading of previously selected works. In the first experience, the impact of the use of comics was indicated through the reduction of the percentage of HIV carriers over the years in which the magazine circulated, while in the second experience it was not yet possible to find concrete and specific data on remission with the use of comics, but its normative prediction by the CNJ and implementation through reading projects has already become real. This is qualitative research, whose method of approach is the hypothetical-deductive, through the use of bibliographic and documentary research techniques.