The Violation of Human Rights in the Brazilian Women's Prison System

Abstract

This article has the general objective of discussing the Brazilian female penitentiary system and the relationship between human rights and the principle of human dignity. There is a frontal violation of both Fundamental Rights and Human Rights in the current engineering of the women's prison system. The methodology used is descriptive and qualitative bibliographical research, based on a bibliographical review, in which it sought to address the issue of human rights violations in the Brazilian female prison system in which the already existing precarious conditions make the environment even more violating, imposing inmates to submission to the most varied situations of disrespect and absurdities under the custody of the State.