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Health in prison: analysis of health social policies targeting the Brazilian prison population

Abstract

This study aims at conducting an analysis of the terminologies used in three fundamental milestones of health social policies targeting the prison population, namely: the Brazilian National Prison Law (Lei de Execução Penal - LEP), the National Plan for Health in the Prison System (Plano Nacional de Saúde no Sistema Penitenciário - PNSSP) and the National Policy of Comprehensive Health Care to People Deprived of Liberty in the Prison System (Política Nacional de Atenção Integral à Saúde das Pessoas Privadas de Liberdade no Sistema Prisional - PNAISP). We carried out a theoretical reflection of the terminologies used in these pieces of legislation, as well as a contextualization of the socio-historical moment in which they were adopted. The LEP, from 1984, arises in the period of Brazil's redemocratization and for the first time provides for health care to "prisoners and convicted people". The PNSSP, of 2003, instituted in the first year of Lula da Silva's government, advocates access to health care for the "population deprived of liberty" in the penitentiary system. The PNAISP (2014), in turn, guarantees full health care access to the prison population, that is, to all people under the custody of the State. From these analyses, we understand that the aforementioned milestones were critical to the headway made in the expansion of rights to the population deprived of liberty. A progress that was only rendered possible in view of the suitable historical moment in which society stood.

 Key words:
social policies; health; prison system

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