A privatização do sistema prisional brasileiro: ressocialização ou mercantilização na sociedade do espetáculo?

Abstract

The prison situation is one of the most complex issues in Brazilian social reality. The picture of hyper incarceration in the present stage of the crisis in penitentiary institutions exposes the dilemma between the recognition of alterity in conflict with the discourse of universality, making evident the question of resocialization, as a purpose of punishment, with the purpose of re-educating the a) prisoner. This dissertation is a contribution to the critique of the process of resocialization in the Brazilian prison system, disguised through the privatization proposals that apprehend the logic of allocation of abstract universality in the commodity form. The main basis for the construction of this research is a critical review of the literature on the topic and its idiosyncrasies, highlighting the innovative and timely bias of this approach under the orientation of value theory (fetish and alienation), since the key proposition is to understand the phenomenon and promote a provocation about the fallacies that subsidize the prisoners' human rights concern. The result of this study was the State's interest in privatizing Brazilian prisons, adopting the discourse of "low cost and high security", giving up the "unavailable" constitutional control in favor of private initiative. This omission reinforces the paradox in human rights, the devaluation of the "subject", the recidivism in the crimes, that is, the mercantilization of the imprisoned individual, being evident the allocation of the capital of the companies in front of the inhuman life in the prison in the society of the spectacle.