Transição e ajustamento de reclusos ao estabelecimento prisional

The prisoner system and its processes is still a theme with lack of search and few discussed in our country. We are starting to give the first steps in the comprehension, as in punishment system and integration in its own meaning, as also trying to understand the dynamics involved: the inmate, the adaption of this one, impolite behaviour, anti-social personality, the crime, the punishment. The following investigation, by a qualitative boarding tried to understand the perceptions and opinions in a set of inmates about their experiences of life in the transition from liberty to prison. The analysis also tried to know the different adjustment that each one made. By a script of interviews half structured, tried to analyse six big areas (health status, familiar situation, social intra-prison situation, actual prison, transition, adjustment, future projects and resilience) and also living habits of each one in these areas. The main conclusion is that each profile is a profile, and to infer about the inmate’s belief we have to consider some factors, between of some, familiar situation, institutional factor, each ones characteristics, the development history, which crime, the opinion that each prisoner has about himself and the sentence living. Only after of an analysis and total understanding to “Self” we are able to comprehend the prisoner in its own and his adjustment to prison.