THE DECLINE OF THE PRISON SYSTEM, AN ANALYSIS OF THE STATE'S RESPONSIBILITY WITH CONVICTED AND INTERNED

Abstract

This article aims to conduct an analysis about the decline of the Prison System, focusing on the responsibility of convicts and internees. For this, a bibliographical research was conducted directed to reliable documents from reliable sources, materialized in books, newspaper articles, scientific research, statutes, constitutions and laws on the subject. In all, searches were conducted in more than 24 different works addressing the issues in question, in addition to 3 of them that served as a primary source of research. The Brazilian Prison System is increasingly in decline, having as main causes factors such as social inequality, precarious public safety system and finding itself in disagreement with the criminal reforms. The responsibility of convicted and interned persons is accentuated, since, in order to be treated in a fair and equal manner within their rights, the respective treatment must be carried out for them. Based on these findings, the prison system should be reviewed in an attempt to provide convicted and detained persons with the necessary tools to understand the conception of rights and duties that are assigned to them. The premise here is that by gathering resources and methodologies, enabling their insertion in everyday life, giving educational support, empowering and providing healthy treatment, the decline of the Prison System may be overcome.