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IMPRISONED WOMEN IN BRAZIL
THE DIFFERENCE IN TREATMENT AND THEIR INVISIBILITY
By Luciana Zaffalon Leme Cardoso
By Luciana Zaffalon Leme Cardoso
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
1 . CONTEXT: BRAZIL
Capital – Brasília
Government System – Presidentialism
Language – Portuguese
Surface area – 8,511,996.3 Km²
Gross Domestic Product - GDP – US$ 796 billion
GDP 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
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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
2. PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION
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
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3. COMPARATIVE GRAPHS
Penalty execution - WOMEN
48%
Pertentage of woman out ot the
total imprisoned population
52%
96%
Penalty Execution - MEN
4%
Men
78%
Women
22%
In APPROPRIATE
facilities
In INAPPROPRIATE
facilities
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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.
3. COMPARATIVE GRAPHS
Before being arrested
WOMEN
33%
67%
Did not live with their children
Raising children after WOMEN’S imprisonment
Lived with their children
Raising children after MEN’S imprisonment
13%
19%
87%
81%
Assumed by the women’s partners
Assumed by the men’s partners
Not assumed by the women’s partners
Not assumed by the men’s partners
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3. COMPARATIVE GRAPHS
Women 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
Visits by partners - WOMEN
18%
Receive visits from their partners
35%
Do not receive
65%
82%
Receiving visits
WOMEN
Do not ever receive
53%
36%
Receive less than once a month
Receive visits
11%
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A significant number of women
does not receive visitors: 36%,
plus 11% of the women who
receive visits less than once a
month
4. Recent facts - Inauguration of the Sant’Ana Female Penitentiary
 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
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
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4. Sant’Ana Female Penitentiary
3 Cinema
1
Pavilions
4 4 sports
courts and
2 vegetable
gardens
5 Penitentiary
Areas 3
and 4
Administration
DO NOT
EXIST
ANYMORE
2 Housing
companies
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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
legitimating, therefore, in their benefit, the
invoking of the due respect to each and
every one of their fundamental rights
IMPRISONED WOMEN IN BRAZIL
IMPRISONED WOMEN IN BRAZIL
THE DIFFERENCE IN TREATMENT AND THEIR INVISIBILITY
By Luciana Zaffalon Leme Cardoso
By Luciana Zaffalon Leme Cardoso
IMPRISONED WOMEN IN BRAZIL