As parcerias público-privada nas instituições prisionais brasileiras: uma mercantilização da pena?

Abstract

On the deplorable state which is the prison system, many point to privatization as the great alternative to the solution of this problem that persists in Brazil a few decades ago. The privatization of the prison system is already a reality in some countries of the world, and in Brazil a few prisons, have also adopted the public-private partnership model, on the auspicious argument that only the private sector has the best position to manage an establishment prison, much because of the ease of obtaining financial resources, have the best technical conditions, and especially not to suffer the effects of bureaucracy that plagues public services. On the other hand, there are those who stand in the opposite way, pointing several controversies about the implementation of public-private partnerships in the prison system and maintain that this partnership as well as unconstitutional is immoral, and could give rise to a real commercialization of feathers making the prison system into a profitable "crime industry", through the perpetuation of a mass incarceration of those who are excluded from consumer society. This paper aims to reflect what will be the consequences of the implementation of public-private partnerships in the prison system, especially the impacts that this model can cause the development of criminal policies.