A questão penitenciária no Rio de Janeiro: os reflexos de políticas de lei e ordem

Abstract

The municipality of Rio de Janeiro, through the Department of Public Order and the "Shock of Order" operation, as well as the Government of Rio de Janeiro, through the Department of Public Safety and the UPP project, demonstrates that the adoption of law and order politics is significantly increasing, aiming to become a constant measure in Rio. In times of World Youth Journey, World Cup and Olympics, controlling, moni-toring, punishing and neutralizing were expressions that increased their importance in the public security policy. The official statistics demonstrates that the adoption of law and order politics caused a significant growth in the prison population in the last five years, with focus on the provisional prisons and with significant increase in teenagers apprehensions, generating serious consequences to the criminal execution and the lack of space available in Rio de Janeiro Prisions.