Uma análise da possível inclusão do sistema APAC – Associação de Proteção e Assistência aos Condenados – no sistema prisional do Estado da Paraíba.

Abstract

In Brazil, the application of penalty went through a long process of transformation and advancement. In ancient times, its purpose was only punitive, possessing, for a long time, a vindictive and inhuman character. It was only in the mid-nineteenth century that a deprivation of liberty penalty was used; now with a punitive and mainly preventive purpose, besides presenting a resocializing character and of passing, therefore, through a process of humanization. However, shortly afterwards, this method of application of penalty ended up suffering a setback, given that, presently, the Brazilian prison system continues to prefer to treat it as a means of punishing the convicted, disobeying what the laws that deal with its application advocate, and, consequently violating the principle of human dignity and individualization of penalty, resulting, finally, in an increase in the rate of recidivism and a decrease in public security. With this scenario, alternative systems began to emerge whose main purpose is to remedy the failures of the common prison system, as occurred in 1972, with the emergence of the Association of Protection and Assistance to the Damned - an alternative system that, through the humanization of the sentence and human valuation, seeks the recovery of the prisoner and its social reintegration, through the contribution and participation of civil society. Over time, the application of the methods of the APAC system began to expand, and today it already has several centers implemented in Brazil, distributed in seven states of the country. Due to the efficiency of this system, the Prison Fellowship International (PFI), an advisory agency of the United Nations (UN), came to recognize it as an effective humanization alternative. In the midst of the presentations about the methods applied by the APAC system and their efficiency, the present study seeks, through the information gathered during the research carried out, to analyze the possibility of implementing the APAC system in the prison system of Paraíba State, that this, as well as the whole prison system of the country, apparently is bankrupt and deteriorated. For the preparation of the present research, the deductive, historical and comparative methods will be used, together with the bibliographical research technique, through the analysis of books, online consultations, scientific articles and legislation with an approach on the subject. Thus, the objective is to demonstrate, without exhausting the questions on the subject, the numerous benefits that the implantation of the APAC system in the prison system of Paraíba could provide, causing the evolution of the State, besides clarifying that the application of this method can be a substantial and alternative aid to the constant failures of the common prison system.