A POLÍTICA SOBRE DROGAS E O SISTEMA PRISIONAL DE MATO GROSSO DO SUL: UMA ANÁLISE DA APLICAÇÃO DO NORMATIVO EM CONTEXTO DE PRIVAÇÃO DE LIBERDADE

Abstract

The “Drug Law”, as Law No. 11,343/2006 became known, although it distinguishes between users and drug dealers, has become a strict device for the growing selective incarceration in Brazil, which has increasingly imprisoned people young, black, peripheral and with a low level of education, adding to these factors, drug addiction is also one of the main problems that affect this population. The prison system has a specific health policy, the National Policy for Comprehensive Health Care for People Deprived of Liberty (PNAISP), however, it does not consider in its context issues related to chemical dependency of people deprived of liberty, which raises questions regarding its effectiveness. Thus, the aim of this study is to understand the applicability of this policy within prison units from the perspective of civil servants, since they are the ones who actually know the daily prison life, and in addition to this, the implementation of policies can have direct impacts on your work. Given this, the study's general objective is to examine the application of the Policy on drugs from the perspective of prison system employees. The state of Mato Grosso do Sul was defined as the research locus. In this study, a descriptive, research with a qualitative approach, of the phenomenological type, was adopted. Interviews were used with civil servants and managers who work technically and operationally in the penitentiary system in different municipalities in the state. The results demonstrate that there is a lack of involvement and commitment from the state regarding the prison agenda. In addition to the system being marked by numerous precariousness, the applicability of the Drug Policy lacks centrality/priority in public management. It was found that there is no specific regulation that guides and systematizes actions aimed at the issue of chemical dependency, such as specialized teams and regional strategies. Furthermore, there is a lack of dialogue between macromanagement, prison management and civil servants regarding obstacles to the application of resocialization instruments, which makes it difficult to apply criminal policies, especially drug policy. The lack of listening to these employees also prevents the establishment of actually functional strategies, both for carrying out the social function of punishment and for alleviating the harm suffered by those who work in prisons. In this sense, the fact of not including prison staff in the decision-making process, in addition to making interventions potentially ineffective, also leaves them with a permanent feeling of invisibility, resulting from the lack of professional recognition and appreciation of a job full of tensions. and anxieties, which largely result from the lack of institutional support. Keywords: Drug policy; chemical dependency; prison system; prisons; prison staff.