PRIVATIZATION OF BRAZILIAN PRISONS: THE TWO SIDES OF THE CURRENCY

• Main Authors: Hilderline Câmara de Oliveira, Suêdja Kelly Paulino Pereira, Ilzamar Silva Pereira, César Ricardo Maia de Vascocnelos
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade Estadual de Maringá 2017-09-01
• Series: Psicologia em Estudo
• Subjects: Crime; direitos humanos; violência.
• Online Access: http://periodicos.uem.br/ojs/index.php/PsicolEstud/article/view/35445

Since the beginning of the 1990s, in Brazil, privatization has proved to be an emergency exit to crisis of services that the State cannot offer efficiently, such as Education, Health, Transportation, and more recently Social Security. The agenda in question is now Public Safety. Failing to meet the demand for lawsuits that pass through the Judiciary, Brazilian prisons are becoming increasingly overcrowded; the services lagged; Constant rebellions, high crime rate, denial of human rights and structural violence, glaring. Thus, this article aims to reflect on both sides of the 'currency' of prisons privatizations in the Brazilian scenario. He used the research with a qualitative approach and bibliographical character with the support of theoretical references from the specialized literature in the area, besides the technical documents, official reports from the Government and NGOs that carry out social control works. The research has shown that privatization seems to be the best way out in the short term and can solve a number of social problems, but how can one think of the profitable return that all privatization requires if its main objective is to reduce the target population? So either this alternative will create a market that, if it turns out, will end itself, or we will end up creating an even more perverse logic of incarceration.