Assistência religiosa: verdadeira alternativa à falência do sistema prisional brasileiro

Abstract

This paper demonstrates the necessary legal relevance of faith in a broader sense totally detached from any specific religion about the right to rehabilitation of ex-convicts. For that was designed the history of the prison system and how religion interfered both worldwide and in the national. After highlighted the precariousness of the current model of serving sentence, signaling to a need to seek alternative and complementary methods in order to truly fulfill the functions of the penalty established by LEP. Finally an analysis was made about the treatment of religious assistance by contemporary legislation, especially to the problems experienced by Law 9982/00. And lastly emphasized the relevance in internal law and in international discussions, concluding with the highlight two Brazilian religious assistance methods, the Pastoral Carcerária and the APAC method.