Penitenciárias no Paraná : contribuição aos estudos sobre sociologia da punição e políticas públicas de segurança

Abstract

The proposal of this work is to investigate the process of construction of vacancies in the penitentiary system of (in) Paraná. In this sense we have the purpose to discuss the prison system as an element of safety public policies. To reflect as the North American discussions about imprisionment policies arrived in Brazil and in which circumstances Paraná is inserted in a imprison model based almost exclusively on the confinement of poverty. We will analyze the main periods of the prison unities construction in the Paraná State, above all in the second period of Roberto Requião (PMDB) government, started in 2002. We will discuss criminality aspects and public policies that the crime produces, besides to investigate the available documents about the penitentiary system of Paraná. At the end, we looked for elements for the comprehension of why prison population in Brazil and, consequently in Paraná, one of the richest State of the Union, is composed by the poorest standards, in the reflections of some analysts of Brazilian society.