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In Brazil, the presence of psychology in prisons was established by the Criminal Sentence Execution Act, in 1984, and it was intensified in the past three decades. In the paper, the results of a study are discussed to understand the activity of psychologists in the prisons in Minas Gerais, based on clinical approaches to the work. We performed a qualitative research, with content analysis of documents, observations in five prisons, and interviews with 14 psychologists who work at these prisons. We verified that the role of psychology in prisons has been controversial, with different institutional intersections resulting from the security and punishment logic, which seems to frequently oppose professional ethical principles. The institutional demand for classifying prisoners overlaps with the monitoring of rehabilitation programs, set forth by law. This scenario, worsened by the lack of professionals, results in obstructions in the activity, the distress of the worker, trivialization of the violation of rights, and uncritical adhesion to the repressive mechanism of the institution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The present work will be based on the analysis of an experience report about a technical visit made to two prison units in the prison complex in the city of Maceió-AL. For the purposes of analysis, a qualitative analysis was made from one unit to the other from the perspective of complexity, where we carry out reflections in relation to education as a tool for social reintegration based on the complexity of the target audience in the Alagoas Prison System. Finally, we exposed a survey of data on the prison population in Brazil with emphasis on the state of Alagoas. In view of the report of the visit made to the prison units, one can see the difference between the Resocialization Center of the Capital where there is a project based on modules of respect, the inmates circulate freely within the unit carrying out work and studying at the opposite time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article tries to understand whether, in budgetary terms, the prison system is effective or not. A study in this sense is of fundamental importance for good practices in politics/criminal area, since efficient investments presuppose the perception of the deficiencies that are intended to cure. First, it seeks to elucidate the mechanisms of the public budget, as well as some particularities relating to its non-binding. Second, there is a brief history of the public budget, specific emphasis on the system of the National Penitentiary Fund and the topic of its contingency. It uses the deductive methodology, descriptive and exploratory qualitative research, as well as the documentary analysis of the indices presented by the government at the national level. In this way, it will be possible to fulfill the main objective of the study that is to evaluate, in economic terms, the prison system is feasible, clarifying, showing numbers, the current state of the art in Brazil. Our conclusion is that the policy of public spending and prisons has no symmetry, and that imprisonment is ineffective in fighting crime. Given the numbers, it is possible to affirm that the budget deficit of the prison system is practically irrecoverable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Brazil has increased its rate of imprisonment by approximately 200% over the past 20 years. The objective of this work is to characterize the socio-economic profile of the prison units and to consolidate a collection of information that provides subsidies for proposing public policies and strategies for monitoring, improving, and inspecting the Prison System of a Brazilian Federation Unit (Maranhão). The methodology consisted of compiling and analyzing social indicators provided by the Ministry of Justice and the National Penitentiary Department - DEPEN, the Court of Justice, and the State Secretariat for Penitentiary Administration - SEAP. Supporting other studies, our results point to the drama that has become the Brazilian prison system. Following Brazilian logic, the progressive increase in the prison population is due more to a policy of repression and criminalization of poverty, than to a policy capable of reducing lethal or non-lethal criminal occurrences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The debate on crime and public security in Brazil is very wide and surrounded by controversies in public discussions. Regarding the penitentiary system, the studies highlight its fragility and selectivity. Therefore, this paper aims to draw a profile of the incarcerated in the Brazilian states during the period 2005 to 2010, taking into consideration several issues broadly discussed in the literature such as age, educational level of the prisoner, the color, the total fulfillment of the sentence, the level of recidivism, the age group and committed crime. Thereafter, we developed the analysis of correlation and regression between the rate of the prison population and the types of crimes to approach the relationship between the two factors. We conclude that what has occurred in Brazil is the privilege of a "repressive" action rather than a "preventive", which contributes to the increase in prison population without an impact on crime rates [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to discuss the impacts of private companies on public service provision by analyzing the outsourcing of prison services in Paraná State, Brazil. By using a principal-agent approach, the present work compares privately operated prisons with traditional prisons wholly managed by the state 2001 to 2006. It evaluates whether or not outsourcing impacted the performance indicators of prisons and, consequently, analyzes the effectiveness of outsourcing. In accordance with the theoretical references, the strategic decisions of governments when involving the private sector in the prison system would lead to reduced costs in detriment of the quality of services. However, the results show that outsourced prisons did not only show cost savings but also increased quality standards in comparison with traditional public prisons. The study concludes by discussing the organizational mechanisms that might generate such results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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