PRISON ISSUE IN BRAZIL

Resumo

Data of the prison issue in Brazil should be examined by the roots of the
historical context of our country. The serious economic crisis in Brazil over the past 30 years
has made investment resources scarce, failing to invest in infrastructure, consequently, in
the Brazilian prison system as a whole. It’s very common to our society to express hate
against prisoners, specially in a country where corruption has become quite normal at the
news cycle, and leave a lack of basic food, such as food, school supplies for schools, bad
health care, etc. What I’d like to show you readers is that we can’t see prisoners as animals,
they have rights and guarantees. It comes to the point we have to ask ourselves;“why our
prison system is not working”?