Violência prisional contra população LGBT no Brasil: um estudo exploratório

Abstract

Given an existing gap in academic research on the theme, especially in Political Science, and the scarcity of official data about the situation of LGBTIA+ people serving prison sentences in the Brazilian prison system, this research sought to collect and consolidate the data available until the present moment, March 2023, with the objective of investigating the conditions of permanence of this community in prison. These data should be made available by the Ministry of Justice and Public Safety of the Federal Government, through the former National Penitentiary Department - DEPEN, today, the National Secretariat of Penal Policies - SENAPPEN, the body responsible for releasing the National Survey of Penitentiary Information - INFOPEN, last released in 2019. In this way, this study starts from the following question: facing the advances in the field of rights of LGBTQIA+ people in Brazil and the absence of data on the situation of these people in the national penitentiary environment, what are the conditions of this population regarding their acquired rights? Seeking to answer this inquiry, the main objective of this study was to analyze the results that the specialized literature on the topic has presented in recent years (2018-2022), as well as to investigate and gather data published by other entities, whether governmental or non-governmental, in addition to displaying a theoretical-political debate about the existing relationship between organized civil society that mobilizes for LGBTQIA+ causes with the State in the search for rights and public policies. Methodologically, the data collected came from a survey conducted in the main bibliographic bases available, having filtered articles, theses and dissertations published as of 2018, in addition to data published by other governmental and non-governmental entities. We know that there is no consolidated official data that presents the realities experienced by this imprisoned population, so we present a critical work that can serve as a diagnosis on the issues related to the experiences of these people in Brazilian prisons, as well as point out some of the existing omissions, thus contributing to the knowledge in this area of studies and to instrumentalize the organizations and social movements that mobilize for the achievement and fulfillment of the rights of gender, gender identity, sex and sexual orientation.