O retrato da vulnerabilidade dos homossexuais no sistema carcerário brasileiro

Abstract

Brazilian society is filled with homophobia and repudiation of LGBT population (lesbians, gays, bisexuals, travesties, transexuals and transgenders). This intolerance is repeted in prisions in a more agressive way due to the conditions the inmates are currently exposed to. Homophobia, combined with the lack of effective public policies and the inertia Public Power, brings homossexuals to be seen as people who don’t worth respect and, because of that, homossexual inmates always suffers attacks against their dignity inside the prisions. Therefore, this work aims to demonstrate the vulnerability of homossexuals inmates in male prisions and to show initiatives that have been already implemented in some penitentiary institutions intending to reduce the vulnerability of the LGBT inmates in prision environment.