Saúde no cárcere: análise das políticas sociais de saúde voltadas à população prisional brasileira

This study aims at conducting an analysis of the terminologies used in three fundamental milestones of health social policies targeting the prison population, namely: the Brazilian National Prison Law (Lei de Execucao Penal - LEP), the National Plan for Health in the Prison System (Plano Nacional de Saude no Sistema Penitenciario - PNSSP) and the National Policy of Comprehensive Health Care to People Deprived of Liberty in the Prison System (Politica Nacional de Atencao Integral a Saude das Pessoas Privadas de Liberdade no Sistema Prisional - PNAISP). We carried out a theoretical reflection of the terminologies used in these pieces of legislation, as well as a contextualization of the socio-historical moment in which they were adopted. The LEP, from 1984, arises in the period of Brazil's redemocratization and for the first time provides for health care to "prisoners and convicted people". The PNSSP, of 2003, instituted in the first year of Lula da Silva's government, advocates access to health care for the "population deprived of liberty" in the penitentiary system. The PNAISP (2014), in turn, guarantees full health care access to the prison population, that is, to all people under the custody of the State. From these analyses, we understand that the aforementioned milestones were critical to the headway made in the expansion of rights to the population deprived of liberty. A progress that was only rendered possible in view of the suitable historical moment in which society stood.