This is qualitative research carried out with judicial processes of criminal execution which analyzes how judicial and penitentiary actors articulate the discourses on work and education in contemporary Brazilian prisons. This research aims to perceive the dynamics raised by good time credits from these activities. Considering that these credit requests represent a privileged place for analyzing the dynamics of government and bureaucratic management of the prison flow, important ambivalences were identified between the centrality of the rehabilitative ideal, as an organizer of the interactions between the actors, and the displacement of work and education as bureaucratic operators of the criminal execution flow.
Keywords:
prison; sentence serving; good time credits; rehabilitative ideal; flow