Revista íntima no sistema prisional brasileiro

Abstract

This monograph analyzes the private search which is submitted to family or friends who come to visit an inmate into Brazilian Prison System, in order to verify if this searching process is absolute incompatible with protected rights and fundamental values granted by our Federal Constitution. Thereby, this work explored peculiarities and consequences about the theme, also analyzing what has been done inside the Brazilian political-legislative field about the subject through a bibliographic research. For this, it started with a thematic ground that was able to explain the occurrence of such action toward visitors as a product of our society, which is rooted around us and seem as the result of a system so less evolved. The humiliating procedure, which includes visitors passing through stripping, intimate touches and embarrassment towards public officials, is justified and supported by the aim for inhibiting entry of illegal objects inside the prisons, ensuring, in theory, the security in those places. However, under its unjustifiable means and controversial goals, this abusive practice must be abrogated because of the violation of human rights and the existence of alternative activities that dignifies prisoners' visitation, ensuring more humanity in the Prison System. Brazil, as a democratic state ruled by Law, is obligated to follow the rules and to act in manners to always reassure and reinforce the dignity of all its citizens.