As facções criminosas no sistema prisional de Alagoas: práticas e estratégias de enfrentamento pelo Estado em Alagoas

Abstract

The present study aimed to analyze the Brazilian Penitentiary System, regarding, mainly, to the emergence and advance of organized crime, with emphasis on the Alagoas Penitentiary System. We started with a bibliographic research in order to understand how organized crime arises and develops in Brazil .In addition, we sought to understand, through interviews carried with a public servant who works in the “Gerência de Inteligência da Secretaria de Estado de Ressocialização e Inclusão Social – SERIS”, to understand how the criminal factions arrived in Alagoas prisons, as well as the current scenario. From the present study, it was possible to conclude that it is necessary to reflect more about the situation of Brazilian penitentiaries, aiming at the implementation of mechanisms and strategies capable of reducing tension among the prisoners, since the disorder in these environments are consequences of the competitiveness by power and consequently, culminating in the need for individuals to engage, in groups, to face each other.