As pessoas com deficiência em meio ao sistema penitenciário: a dupla penalização no sistema penal brasileiro

Abstract

Despite all the changes that have occurred, throughout history, in legislation and social models so that people with disabilities could be included in society, it is possible to observe that there are still gaps to be filled, especially with regard to people with disabilities in the environment. prisoner. The penitentiary system in Brazil, even with evolutions, still deprives inmates of their fundamental rights to serve a sentence in dignified human conditions. The main objective of this work was to analyze the laws that guarantee the rights of people with disabilities over time and whether the way in which they are inserted in society and in the prison environment is satisfactory in the light of human rights and the Statute of Persons with Disabilities. The methodology used was qualitative, exploratory, explanatory From the bibliographical and documental studies we reached the following conclusions: the Brazilian prison system violates the rights of people with disabilities as the cells do not meet the accessibility standards provided for in ABNT; the Criminal Execution Law does not provide for the rights of the inmate with a disability, the latter being penalized twice.