A superlotação como uma das causas da crise do sistema penitenciário brasileiro.

Abstract

Currently one of the major problems of our prison system is overcrowding. The prisoners are increasingly losing their spaces in cells, being so amounted, countering this way the law of criminal executions. Given this reality, it is virtually impossible to be the re opened. The current state of the prison system makes us reflect on ways of punishment provided for in our legal system that takes into account the deprivation of liberty of the individual. The prisons in Brazil have become a real "school of crime", when really should recover the dignity of the arrested, because there is adequate food, implementation of human rights and respect for the same, making it very difficult its recovery in society since the prison itself does not recover anyone. It is no coincidence that the prisons instead educate the prisoners ever make it worse, because currently 60% of the prison population is repeated. So the prison situation is getting worse, because with the growing crime that occurs today in Brazil, the prison has received a large number of condemned, without being structurally suitable for receiving this excessive number of prisoners, taking their chances of recovery decreased.Given this situation, the state should reverse the crisis installed in prisons, choosing to apply, instead of prison sentences, the sentences with more effective alternatives. This is a way out of the humanization of the punitive state.