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By Luciana Zaffalon Leme Cardoso. IMPRISONED WOMEN IN BRAZIL THE DIFFERENCE IN TREATMENT AND THEIR INVISIBILITY. By Luciana Zaffalon Leme Cardoso. IMPRISONED WOMEN IN BRAZIL. Context: Brazil Problem identification Comparative Graphs of the Brazilian penitentiary system - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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IMPRISONED WOMEN IN BRAZIL
By Luciana Zaffalon Leme Cardoso
By Luciana Zaffalon Leme Cardoso
IMPRISONED WOMEN IN BRAZILTHE DIFFERENCE IN TREATMENT AND THEIR
INVISIBILITY
IMPRISONED WOMEN IN BRAZIL
IMPRISONED WOMEN IN
BRAZIL
1. Context: Brazil
2. Problem identification
3. Comparative Graphs of the Brazilian penitentiary system
4. Recent facts - Inauguration of the Sant’Ana Female Penitentiary
IMPRISONED WOMEN IN BRAZIL
Capital – BrasíliaGovernment System – PresidentialismLanguage – Portuguese Surface area – 8,511,996.3 Km²Gross Domestic Product - GDP – US$ 796
billionGDP Per Capita – US$ 4,321 Unemployment rate – 9.8% Illiteracy rate – 11.6%
Population – 186.800.367 inhabitants Men – 49.22 % Women – 50.78 % Incarcerated population: 328.776
Brazil – 8th position in social inequality
46.9% of Brazilian domestic income is held
by the richest 10% of the population, the lower 10% of the population receive
0.7% of the income
1 . CONTEXT: BRAZIL
IMPRISONED WOMEN IN BRAZIL
1. The right to receive intimate visits is not extended to female inmates, as it is granted to men
2. Female homosexuality is deemed as an administrative fault, though there is no legal action foreseen against it (which may even result in the loss of penalty reduction)
3. Basic female specificities are not taken into account: the women have no access to essential products, such as, for example, tampons, for which they try to compensate for by saving the soft part of the bread to use at the time of their menstruation
2. PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION
IMPRISONED WOMEN IN BRAZIL
Pertentage of woman out ot the total imprisoned population
4%
96%
Women Men
Penalty Execution - MEN
78%
22%
Penalty execution - WOMEN
48%
52%
3. COMPARATIVE GRAPHS
In INAPPROPRIATE
facilities
In the Public Security System, which is inadequate to carry out the penalty, the women have no access to education or work, since these rights are not warranted during the time served in the police system. As a consequence, they are brutally impaired, once they become ineligible to receive penalty remission. Furthermore, at the police stations and public jails, there is no Public Defender to offer legal assistance, as the Federal Constitution demands.
In APPROPRIATE
facilities
IMPRISONED WOMEN IN BRAZIL
Raising children after WOMEN’S imprisonment
19%
81%
Assumed by the women’s partners
Not assumed by the women’s partners
Before being arrestedWOMEN
67%
33%
Lived with their childrenDid not live with their children
Raising children after MEN’S imprisonment
87%
13%
Assumed by the men’s partners
Not assumed by the men’s partners
3. COMPARATIVE GRAPHS
IMPRISONED WOMEN IN BRAZIL
Women are more abandoned when in prisonWomen are more abandoned when in prison. Only 18% receive visits from their partners, as opposed to men, among which 69% receive visits from
their wives.
Visits by partners - MEN
65%
35%
Visits by partners - WOMEN
18%
82%
Do not receive
Receive visits from their partners
Receiving visitsWOMEN
36%
11%
53%Do not ever receive
Receive less than once a month
Receive visits
A significant number of women does not receive visitors: 36%, plus 11% of the women who receive visits less than once a month
3. COMPARATIVE GRAPHS
IMPRISONED WOMEN IN BRAZIL
4. Recent facts - Inauguration of the Sant’Ana Female Penitentiary
State Penitentiary (São Paulo) was deactivated, “remodeled”, and in December 2005, became the “Sant’Ana Female Penitentiary, but without attending neither to female specificities nor to the social
function of resocialization and reeducation
The State of São Paulo holds most of the female inmate population of the country, about 80% of the total of imprisoned women
There is a clear unevenness in treatment between men and women in the Brazilian jail system, and it becomes clearer by
looking into the public policies directed at each of these segments, be it structurewise, or regarding the allocation of resources to build better
environments that attend to the specificities of women
Women always inhabit remodeled buildings that usually maintain their previous physical structure, in total disobedience to the Human Rights and female specificities. These are buildings with structures already deemed inadequate – public facilities previously deactivated or interdicted, often because of security or health issues
IMPRISONED WOMEN IN BRAZIL
4. Sant’Ana Female Penitentiary
4 4 sports courts and 2 vegetable gardens
3 Cinema
Areas 3 and 4
DO NOT EXIST ANYMORE
1 Pavilions
5 Penitentiary Administration
2 Housing companies
IMPRISONED WOMEN IN BRAZIL
legitimating, therefore, in their benefit, the invoking of the due respect to each and every one of their fundamental rights
As a premise we should bear in mind that, whether in the Brazilian judicial system or in any of the democratic nations aware of Human Rights, those convicts of liberty-depriving penalties, even under impossibility of appeal, never lose their human condition
IMPRISONED WOMEN IN BRAZIL
By Luciana Zaffalon Leme Cardoso
By Luciana Zaffalon Leme Cardoso
IMPRISONED WOMEN IN BRAZILTHE DIFFERENCE IN TREATMENT AND THEIR
INVISIBILITY