This paper dedicate oneself to the study of the 1980's and 1990's decades in Brazil, since political transition, searching also to approach its extend that materialized, the most part, at the 1990's. The approach is based on establishing relations among political changes, its possibilities and its limits, and the quotidian of São Paulo's prisons institutions initially, and afterwards of a specific region: the São Paulo western. We could reach, then, to identify distinct own temporalities of each one, sometimes materialized in fissures at democratization process that involved human rights discussion, besides the identification of common and specific power relationship.
São Paulo State prisons; Military period; quotidian history