Cemitério dos vivos: análise sociológica de uma prisão de mulheres

A pioneer work both within social sciences approaches on prison environments and about the issue of female inmates in those environments, Julita Lemgruber’s “Cemiterio dos Vivos” (The Cemetery of the Living) brings us important reflections about social dynamics and processes that took place between 1976 and 1978 at Rio de Janeiro’s Talavera Bruce Penitentiary. Having been the author’s Sociology Master’s Thesis at IUPERJ (Instituto Universitario de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro), the work is always up-to-date in the context of the penitentiary issue. Its value – still and exemplarily – aggregates a whole professional trajectory based on the committed and confident search for mitigating human suffering and abolishing the punishment of deprivation of freedom.