This dissertation aims to investigate the practice of dialogic reading (Cf. BATISTA-
SANTOS, 2018) within a women's penitentiary in Palmas - Tocantins, as a way of
producing critical knowledge, reflection and identity formation, since it seeks to to create
a learning space where incarcerated women can envision their voice being heard and
legitimized, beyond the 'world of crime'. Its specific objective is: a) to investigate the
construction of meanings through the practice of dialogic reading in the context of
incarceration; b) analyze how the constitution of the reading identity of inmates
(responsive reading women) took place. Linked to these objectives, the questions that are
sought to be answered are the following: 1. Is it possible to find literacy within a prison?
2. Do women in prison who have dropped out of school present gaps (or 'fail') in terms of
literacy? 3. Does the prison provide the necessary support, unlike the outside world, for
literacy development? 4. Did these women discover their voice through reading, even
though they were in prison? 5. Can reading in prison or is it emancipatory? The theoretical
basis is related to studies on literacy (STREET, 2014) and reading from a dialogical
perspective and the epistemology of emancipatory education (FREIRE, 2019; 2020). The
methodological nature is part of a qualitative-interpretative perspective, in the field of
Applied Linguistics. The methodological instruments used were an adaptation of the
Thinking High in Group (ZANOTTO, 2014) from an interview and two reading
experiences. The research subjects were five women who were inmates in a female
penitentiary in the capital of Tocantins. The analyzes were elucidated, based on the
theoretical framework, to answer the questions that guided the research. As a result, it
was found that: a) it is not only possible to find literacy within the prison, but it was also
found that the participants discovered their subjective and dialogic voices through
reading, confirming that the act of reading in prison is a way of emancipation and
liberation; b) the inmates emancipate themselves when they become aware of their state
and from there they seek to transform it in a critical and reflexive way.
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