As prisões brasileiras e a condição humana do encarcerado

Abstract

Advances in the promotion of human rights have been verified in Brazil, which is of essential relevance for the production and maintenance of a democracy that perpetuates itself in that country. However, the World Report on Human Rights, in its edition of 2014 up to this year, prepared by the NGO Human Rights Watch, as well as the other documents providing data regarding the prison situation, which includes the perspective of the prisoners. The National Justice Council’s (CNJ) Missions2 have consistently reported the many challenges it faces and that it will need to address them, such as police violence, the use of torture and overcrowding of prisons. Thus, this work has, in its core of discussion, the Brazilian prison issue, notably, the conditions of life in prisons, caused by the way the state sees it and garner attention, in partnership with the pillar of resocialization.

Keywords

• prison population
• over crowded
• violence
• dignity of human person
• ; state housing