Relação entre o capitalismo e o sistema carcerário norte-americano e brasileiro

• Autor(a) principal: Schreier, Anna Memran
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.pucsp.br/jspui/handle/handle/40405
• topic: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ECONOMIA; Criminalidade; Sistema carcerário; Privatização; Prisões privadas; Capitalismo; Crime; Prison system; Privatization; Private prisons; Capitalism

Prison privatization is taken as a solution to mass incarceration, in a society that uses surveillance, policing and imprisonment, through government and industry actions, as palliatives for economic, social, and political problems. However, such an alternative is fearful, considering it could encourage exploitation by inmates' labor and the lack of basic conditions and programs that aim to collaborate with the reintegration of people deprived of liberty, in addition to encouraging an increase in prison population, which consequently generates more profits. Therefore, this present work aims to reflect about the North American and Brazilian prison-industrial complexes, in comparison, considering their characteristics and difficulties, as well as their relationship with capitalism and exploitation. In light of this, privatization is presented as a possible solution to the problems, despite that, arises the question of how private prison companies profit from the sub-human and inadequate conditions of the institutions and, in addition, end up generating a conflict between the pursuit of profit and the State's responsibility to protect and guarantee the rights of inmates. Conclusively, this article echoes the influence the North American prison system has on Brazilians, dealing with alternatives to the mass incarceration that seems to be the current trend