A parceria público-privada no sistema penitenciário brasileiro

Abstract

This work deals with public-private partnerships in the penitentiary system, analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of privatizing the penitentiary system in order to understand whether public-private partnerships would indeed be an alternative to one of the main problems in the penitentiary system, which is overcrowding of prisons. With overcrowding, the shortage of vacancies in the prison environment becomes increasing and from this situation arise several other problems. These include contamination by contagious diseases, ease of articulation between gangs inside prisons and attacks between rival gangs, because with overcrowded prisons it is difficult to separate them, increase tensions, thus raising violence among prisoners, lack of hygiene in the prison environment, rebellions increase and,

among others. With this, we intend to discuss how the private initiative from the public- private partnership becomes more efficient in the way of managing the prison system, since

we know of the difficulties that the State has been finding in carrying out such a task. In methodological terms the work consisted in a descriptive bibliographical research documentary employing the available knowledge on the chosen theme, in secondary sources. The objective is to expose the topic to a debate in order to understand more about this issue, bringing some concepts, exposing divergent opinions on the subject and thus analyze what has positive and negative in the privatization of prisons.