Sentence remission through reading from an abolitionist perspective

Abstract

This article analyzes the institute of remission of sentence through reading, particularly the potential of reading practiced in a critical dialogical way, aiming at the autonomy and freedom of people deprived of liberty, bringing the institute closer to the basic ideology of penal abolitionism. Elaborated through bibliographical and documentary research, it aims to demonstrate that reading carried out by people deprived of liberty from the perspective described can contribute to the weakening of criminal subjection and punitive subjectivities, and with this, enable liberation from the vicious circle of political, social, and economic processes that culminate in mass incarceration.