Estado e PCC na pandemia: convergências e divergências na proposição de medidas de saúde e segurança pública nas prisões

The article analyzes clashes and approaches between different actors - Human Rights bodies and the National Council of Justice (CNJ), Federal Government and Courts of Justice, and the First Command of the Capital (PCC) - regarding the emergence of Covid-19 and its spread in prisons. From the analysis of journalistic articles, norms, and official statistical data, it is argued that the speeches of the PCC and the international and national guidelines converge with respect to a central agenda: the reduction of prison overcrowding. On the other hand, government and justice agents are opposed to the release of custodians, claiming that it could endanger the population. Consequently, the already bad prison conditions become even more precarious and the lives of people deprived of their liberty even more fragile. The effect of this scenario is that the PCC assumes the role of defender of the rights of prisoners, ina potential intensification of their legitimacy in the jails and peripheries.