Prisão e(m) pandemia:

Covid-19, políticas de morte e produção de resistências

Abstract

The article discusses how the coronavirus pandemic has affected the Brazilian prison system, intensifying the violations of rights against the prison population and making the articulations and forms of resistance undertaken by anti-prison movements and prisoners' family members more difficult. The methodology used is bibliographic and documentary research. Among the violence in the prison institution mentioned in the article are: communication difficulties between the prison population and their families; lack of basic conditions for survival in prisons, including food and water; problems with medical care during the pandemic; underreporting of COVID-19 cases in the prison population; attempt to implement virtual custody hearings; reduction of people arrested who could serve house arrest, according to the resolution number 62/2020 of the National Council of Justice. The text also highlights some of the forms of resistance of social movements and family members of prisoners against the violence perpetrated by prison. In these articulations, it can be observed gender dynamics from the predominance of women in such movements. There is also an extension of criminalization and stigmatization processes to the families of the prison population. Finally, the text addresses the difficulties in the performance of these movements since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.