Realidade penitenciária no Brasil: Desafios, trabalho penitenciário e privatização do sistema prisional.

Abstract

This work's main objective is to analyze the penitentiary system that is installed in Brazil together with the applicability and advantages of ex-prisoners' work in the Brazilian penal system, that is, what is the real result for the State, society and especially for the convicted person, aiming to professional work and study as a way of preparing the convict for life in society. The theoretical foundations that justify the State's power-duty to punish were researched. A historical-evolutionary analysis of the application of punishment in the world and in Brazil was carried out, with the aim of better identifying the current evolutionary stage of Brazilian criminal law. Support for the application of the prison sentence in the Brazilian prison system, which does not recover or resocialize anyone, giving the condemned a much greater criminogenic character than at the time of their segregation, given the structural and pedagogical failure of the prison, proven by the high rate of recidivism among its prison population. Bibliographic research was used, through online consultations, resolutions, projects and laws, as well as doctrines and jurisprudence. From the study carried out, perhaps we can conclude whether the application of work, and the encouragement of study as a form of professionalization, is an advance in criminal law, especially due to its social importance, which has been the subject of constant debates in the legal world and significant changes in the criminal reality in Brazil.