A ressocialização no sistema carcerário brasileiro

Abstract

The current Brazilian prison system is very inefficient, not providing the minimum necessary conditions to achieve the purposes of sentence of imprisonment, which causes an inability to re-socialize the prisoner in order that he doesn’t have the opportunity to rejoin society. This situation is due to the precariousness of the prison facilities of our country, not existing an infrastructure capable to provide for inmates some kind of assistance such as medical and social, or educational and vocational training. Thus, the prison ends up having the opposite effect to what it should have, since, instead of assisting the offender in his recovery, it is contributing to their deterioration, being, because of this, often accused of inserting it deeper into the world of crime, which remains evident when we face with an increasing rate of recidivism in Brazil. Therefore, we seek to offer possible solutions that can solve or at least mitigate that problem, discuss its possible consequences in society, and analyze which would be more effective or more feasible to put into practice.