Limites comunicativos à erradicação da degradação humana no sistema prisional brasileiro

Abstract

The analysis undertaken seeks to understand how the perpetuation of degrading conditions in the Brazilian penal system occurs, despite communications from the social systems of law and politics that condemn these circumstances and propose ways to overcome this situation. Based on Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Social Systems, adopted as the theoretical framework, the qualitative-inductive method was employed to identify communicative obstacles to modifying the observed scenario of human degradation. Thus, a description was made of particularly relevant communications emanating from the systems of law and politics over the last 10 years, contiguous to the prison system, to identify, based on these data, their influence or lack thereof on the Brazilian prison system. The perpetuation of degrading conditions in the Brazilian prison system, despite these communications, points to the existence of communicative obstacles. From this perspective, a description of the prison system as an organization is presented according to the Theory of Social Systems, as a possible explanation for the perpetuation of degrading conditions, considering the operationally closed and autopoietic nature of social organizations, with possible derivations of this research being presented at the end.