Caminhos para a ressocialização: percurso necessário

Abstract

This work deals with the resocialization of freedom restricted people, as the most important aspect of the penalty nowadays. Its goal is to present the restructuring demands of the Brazilian prison system, assuring the security of the society, through the resocialization of the prisoners instead of assigning a mere character of punishment to the incarceration, saving the human dignity, one of the fundamental principles of the Universal Human Rights Declaration, stated in the Federal Constitution of 1988 and in the Law of Penal Execution. To do so, it deals with de historical evolution of the prison system; it describes the relation between Brazilian laws and the premises of United Nations Organization about prisoners’ treatment; it identifies the needed procedures for the resocialization of the prisoners; it highlights the investment demands for qualification, health support, career and salary plan for the system’s workers. The methodology used was based on a bibliographic research about the subject. This study states that the resocialization is an obligation of the public administration due to the severe security crises lived in Brazil. In this regard, it is indispensable that the prison system is restructured, assuring that the legal premises are indeed respected. It is to be noticed that qualification, health support and the system workers valorization are essential for the freedom restrictive penalty to achieve its resocialization goal. Therefore, the study concludes that restructuring the prison system may effectively contribute to the maintenance of the security of the society, through the resocialization of people with freedom restrictions instead of the character of mere punishment of the imprisonment.