Crise dos Direitos Humanos nas penitenciárias brasileiras e a interferência do Sistema Interamericano de Proteção dos Direitos Humanos: um estudo de caso do Complexo de Pedrinhas no Maranhão entre os anos 2013 e 2022

Abstract

The objective of this work is to contribute to the understanding of the limits of Human Rights and the Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights in Brazilian humanitarian crises in prison. To this end, a case study is made of the Pedrinhas Penitentiary Complex, in Maranhão, and the results of the System's interference in its respective situation of continued violations. The theoretical framework approached for the discussion of the topic is decolonial literature, focusing on the contributions of Aníbal Quijano, Júlio Pinto and Walter Mignolo. The methodology used was a qualitative documentary and bibliographic review through the majority use of government records and international institutions under analysis. The results of the work indicate that Human Rights have ethnic limits originating from modernity which formed contemporary asymmetrical situations, also reflecting on the methods of the Inter-American System for the Protection of Human Rights, thus not reaching the real roots linked to the violent scenario in Brazil and in penitentiaries.