A precariedade do sistema prisional brasileiro: dissonância entre teoria e prática

Abstract

The dignity of the human being, including a prison, is guaranteed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Federal Constitution of Brazil. But in practice what is seen are outrageous violations of such rights. Here the subject was discussed in relation to the precariousness of the Brazilian penitentiary system in view of the alarming disregard for the dignity of the detainee. This study aimed to analyze critically, through research, the crisis in the Brazilian prison system, checking the patent infringement of the principle of human dignity. Have specific objectives were defined: to demonstrate clearly the effects of the penitentiary system brought to the company itself and the reeducation; demonstrate the possibility of applying other forms of imprisonment different from custodial and its positive results; report the reality experienced by inmates in Brazilian prisons and tortures, humiliations, hardships, bureaucracy and restrictions on visits to relatives; demonstrate the ineffectiveness of the law 7.210/1984 - criminal law enforcement, in relation to your commands when dealing with matters regarding serving sentence in confrontation with human dignity. The difficulty re-entering the labor market of a former detainee was also verified. Was presented the program APAC (Association for protection and assistance to the convict) that seeks to promote humanization of prisons, without losing sight of the purpose obviously punitive penalty. Its purpose is to prevent recidivism and offer alternatives to the condemned recover. It can be concluded that much still needs to be done to improve the prison system in an attempt to become more human the enforcement of a sentence, and there is a line between theory and actual practice.