Privatização das prisões e destituição dos direitos da população encarcerada : uma análise do sistema penitenciário no estado penal

Abstract

The deepening of the crisis of capital led to the resurgence of neoliberal policies and conservatism, expanding the attacks on democracy and legal achievements aimed at protecting the incarcerated population, through the selective action of the Penal State, which tightened repression on the prisoners. poor and unemployed leading to mass incarceration. The present study aimed to analyze the repercussion of the capitalist crises unleashed especially from the 1990s on the Brazilian prison system, with emphasis on the proposals of bills aimed at the privatization of prisons, the deregulation of rights contained in the LEP and the exploitation of the labor force of the incarcerated population. The research was guided by the assumptions of the historical-dialectical materialist method, which starts from the ontological conception of social reality, in which the social being produces its own objective and subjective conditions of existence. As technical instruments, several documental sources were consulted. The method used for the analysis and interpretation of data was the qualitative method. The path taken in the study showed that with the capitalist crises of the last decades, the capitalist State increased repression. In Brazil, the responses to criminality consist, therefore, for the most part, in severe penalties, translated into the absence of respect for constitutional guarantees and the broad recourse to incarceration. Along these lines, our contemporary democratic governments often adopt a punitive stance aimed at reaffirming the state's ability to punish and control crime.