Introduction:

The right to health of women is defined in the Brazilian Constitution and the Organic Law of Health, but all of these aspects are discussed thinking about the woman who enjoys physical and legal freedom, ignoring the reality of female prisoners, whose access to information torna-harder and that they present a life story often painful, even more face prejudice due to various social exhibits.

Objective:

To analyze and describe the perception of prisoners on the maternal health care in a women's prison.

Methods:

Descriptive and exploratory study of qualitative approach, developed in 2014 a female reference penitentiary capital Piaui, Brazil. Participants were 14 prisoners selected by the inclusion criteria. We collected the data through semi-structured interviews and were analyzed by using content analysis.

Results:

From the analysis emerged two thematic categories, namely: The nurse present in the prenatal and puerperal of prisoners; and the lack of human assistance, before prisoners in the puerperal pregnancy cycle.

Conclusion:

The survey allowed to know the perception of the group studied. Participants reported that nursing is active in prenatal and postpartum, but complain about the inhumane care that is provided to them, due to the bias of health professionals related to his prison condition.

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