As condições de vida do presidiário e a aplicabilidade do princípio da dignidade da pessoa humana na Colônia Penal Agrícola do Sertão.

Abstract

The problems that affects the Brazilian prison system are not restricted only to large prisons located in large cities. The lack of respect for the overriding principles that underlie human subsistence is latent. This investigation first presents the principle of Human Dignity since its conception to its applicability in the Brazilian prison system and, consequently, their actual application at the Colonia Penal Agricola do Sertao, in the city of Sousa-PB. For that it was used the inductive method, through a literature and document analysis, through theoretical and juridical hermeneutical-normative method. It is based also on field research, using the technical of structured enterview through pre-formulated questions. It seeks the origin of the principle, the systematization of a concept and the applicability of the Principle of Human Dignity. This study covers up all the prison system, through the historical development of the sentence, and the prison systems applied at the world, until getting into the mode of execution of sentence structure and the prison offered in our country. This research review of the Colonia Penal Agricola do Sertao and the applicability of these principles by presenting data obtained from research in the field made with the criminal agricultural establishment in the city of Sousa-PB. Before the presentation of data and delivered an analysis that there is a lack of applicability of various rights, noting the absence of the principle of Human Dignity in the lives of inmates who were convicted in the Colonia Penal Agricola de Sousa-PB.