Encarceramento em Massa e Necropolítica em Tempos de Pandemia no Brasil: A Crise Permanente do Direito à Saúde Frente ao Estado de Coisas Inconstitucional
Keywords:
pandemic, human rights, necropolitics, mass incarceration, Right to healthAbstract
Health is a fundamental right according to the Brazilian constitutional perspective, according to which all people are entitled. However, many socioeconomic factors still determine those who will have, or under what conditions they will have, access to care, treatment and medical prevention. In this sense, due to their hygiene conditions, access to health and space provision, prison units have historically been epicenters of infectious diseases. Thus, the present study, based on a bibliographic review, demonstrates how the COVID-19 pandemic, combined with the non-observance of the fundamental right to health, has acted, or can act, in prison environments as an intensification of the necropolitical extermination. To this end, it analyzes the effectiveness of social public policies with a universal right to health in the prison environment, and then deals with the necropolitics that permeate the recognized unconstitutional state of affairs and its aggravation in the face of the health crisis.
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