Os indignos de vida: uma análise sob a perspectiva do abolicionismo penal da chacina de Altamira no Estado do Pará

Abstract

The article in question has as primary objective to promote an analysis about the Altamira Slaughter, in the state of Pará towards the conjecture of those unworthy of life under the perspective of penal abolitionism. This case of study has as specific objectives to approach the notion of killable, unworthy lives and verify imprisonment as social mechanism of control in Altamira’s slaughter. To that end, it is carried out a study starting from a bibliographical review and document analysis, especially inspection reports from the Centro de Recuperação Regional de Altamira, in Pará, carried out by the National Mechanism for Preventing and Combating of Torture (MNPCT) and by the Human Rights Commission and Consumer Protection of the Legislative Assembly from the State of Pará (ALEPA), as well as the “Inspection Registrations Receipt”, elaborated by the National Justice Council (CNJ). Thus, this study has as problematizing question: In what measure the abolitionist criminological current allows the analysis of Altamira’s Slaughter before the conjecture of those unworthy of life? Finally, it is critically analyzed the disdain shown by the instances towards the 62 lives that will never be legally protected, because they were unwanted, and had as only options imprisonment or death.