Entre o discurso legal e a realidade : o caso do sistema penitenciário paranaense

Abstract

The proposal of this study aims the understanding of politics bound for Parana penitentiary system through empirical analysis of population that lives in the prison institutions in the State, public politics directed to them and the resources destined to the prison system through the program FUNPEN. The research sought to demonstrate that the Government politics of opening vacancies and mass incarceration demonstrates that the State is following the dictates of the Penal State, with its selective implementation, although undeclared, as demonstrated in the master plan of the prison system of the Government of Paraná. The study presents a reflection of how the Penal State is legitimized in occidental countries and it is configured in Brazil and in Paraná as a "social vacuum". To reinforce this reflection, the data on the profile of the prison population of Paraná was analyzed in the period 2009 to 2012, as it was analyzed the targeting of FUNPEN resources to the prison system of Paraná. This analysis allows us to identify which social overlay has been punished in Paraná, through criminal selectivity, as well as identify which public politics has been directed to the prison system through the analysis of the resources of FUNPEN and legal discourse analysis contained in the master plan for the prison system of Paraná. This reflection on the prison system of Paraná allows the progress in discussions on the penitentiary issue in the State and contributes to the development of public politics directed to decrease the damage to the life of incarcerated people and by sequence, the society.