A senzala ainda existe: o sistema carcerário como mecanismo de punição e segregação da população negra e pobre no Brasil

Abstract

The current undergraduate final project, in Social Work, is the result of research and aims to reveal the violence and violations of rights that happen in the Brazilian prison system, from bibliographic research and analysis of official data available on websites, to understand the racial segregation and punitive practices that affect black and poor people who are deprived of their liberty in Brazil. With a view to the theoretical foundation, it is inspired by Marx's critical dialectical-historical materialism and has Crenshaw's intersectionality of gender, race, and class as a thematic category of analysis and support of the entire Brazilian prison system. In the quest to understand the State's mechanisms to increase incarceration rates from 2006 to 2020, the statements made available by DEPEN were analyzed with the ethnic-racial category about the increase. As a main result, it is concluded that the prison system serves as a mechanism of punishment and segregation of the poor population. Black incarceration has become a state policy and contributes to the genocide of this population. Social Work is still very far from discussions on ethnic-racial relations in Brazil, and little is still debated about the criminal justice system and the consequences of prisons. We believe in the debate on the themes, to demystify one of the spaces that most segregate these populations to achieve societal change.