SISTEMA PRISIONAL BRASILEIRO: Covid-19 e os reflexos em um ambiente de “pandemia estrutural”

The present article seeks to provide a critical reflection of the Brazilian prison system in times of pandemic. From bibliographic review, documentary research, and journalistic news, it identifies how the precarious conditions of the prison units propitiate the expansion of the pandemic, exposing its inmates to the most varied rights violations, which most directly impact the black population. and poor, opening up structural racism in these environments. Demonstrate some of the measures used to mitigate the effects of the pandemic, which, although important, are limited in view of prison structures. Such elements explain the fundamentals of the imprisonment measures and the forms of capitalist control mobilized in the face of the surplus of workforce, and that in the context of a pandemic this condition is aggravated in prisons