O UNIVERSO FEMININO CARCER�RIO BRASILEIRO: DICOTOMIAS ESTRUTURAIS, GÊNERO E O PATRIARCADO

Abstract

The objective of this article is a detailed analysis of the Brazilian women's prison system in its structural and punitive aspects and how this reflects on the violation of human rights. In this way, we seek to confront the rights set forth in the Federal Constitution (1988), the Penal Enforcement Law (1984), international documents and treaties pertinent to the theme, as well as domestic jurisprudence with the reality veiled within such institutions. Within a qualitive, descriptive and bibliographical research and using an inductive research method through which it will be possible to analyze how a social legal problem affects a specific group identified by gender forms part of an extensive universe of rights violation. Therefore, it comes to a question:  how a prison system made to men can fit to a female state prison aspects? In this context, firstly, the paradigms that involve female prisons, their deficient structure, as well as their unpreparedness and inadequacy to house female prisoners and how this scenario violates fundamental/human rights will be addressed. In sequence, the relationship between the stiffening of the anti-drug law and the increase in the female prison population will be discussed to finally be able to conclude there is a relationship between gender, prison and patriarchy.