ABSTRACT
This paper is a personal account of my research experiences in Brazilian prisons. Prison is a figure of speech, which represents a punitive archipelago – forensic hospitals, jails, and youth detention centers. At the end, I provoke a debate over forms of seeing prisons and persons and writing about them. I dare say the studies about prison are male gendered based.
Jail; prison; forensic hospital; youth detention center; Law empirical research
