PRISON BY HUMAN RIGHTS’ LENS AND COVID19 PANDEMIC – THE BRAZILIAN CRISIS

Abstract

From the eighteenth century, prison was raised to the main response of Criminal law. This happened for a political reason, namely the creation of State. In this context, incorporations that the ideologies and characteristics of later centuries brought to prison entail an aporia. To face this crisis, Human rights has produced minimum criteria that should guide the actions of States. The COVID19 pandemic caused urgency of segment of these criteria and the Brazilian case is brought up as an example of failures of most UN member states.