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Marden Marques Soares1, Paula Michele Martins Gomes Bueno2
1Departamento de Monitoramento e Fiscalização (DMF) do Sistema Carcerário e do Sistema de Execução de Medidas Socioeducativas, DMF do Conselho Nacional de Justiça. Pça. Três Poderes/ Supremo Tribunal Federal/ Anexo I/Sala 361, Zona Cívico-Administrativa. 70175-900 Brasília DF Brasil. mardenfilho@gmail.com.
Abstract:
This study investigates the latest research on the profile of the Brazilian prison population, its demography and current laws and regulations. It aims in the direction of ensuring the human right to health. Brazilian prison system is a complex universe in which state and federal criminal contexts keep more than 607,000 people in custody. This population is composed of 75% of young and black people, 67% poorly educated and 41% are pre-trial detainees, living in overcrowded prisons and architecturally vandalized, with population growth of around 575% in 24 years, making this environment a major focus of production of diseases. The prison becomes the object of differentiated intervention by public bodies linked to the executive and the judiciary - it is worth remarking that the data show the high level of inequalities and health vulnerabilities among the prison population, whose needs involve a set of cross-sector of transverse public policies actions towards penal execution.
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