A realidade do sistema carcerário brasileiro

Abstract

This study intends to reflect on prison public policies in Brazil and, as a consequence, aims to identify the current situation of the Brazilian prison system, pointing out its main problems. It also addresses the neglect on the part of the public authorities regarding the resocialization of the inmate, making it impossible to recover properly, since the prisons do not contain the amount of cells needed to accommodate all detainees, thus generating overpopulation. In addition, the precariousness of the system is noteworthy, which is a major disorder that affects beyond the prison population, society itself. It is of fundamental importance to take into consideration the recognition of fundamental rights, but the crisis experienced by the state does not allow to fulfill the objectives of the Citizen Constitution of 1998, where it was used the penalty and prisons as the main form of control and maintaining order, disregarding its main object of action established in the fundamental rights of the prisoner.