Resumo:
The scope of this work is to analyze the problem of the prison system, notably the management models that are currently applied in Bahia, with the main focus on the comanagement model applied in the state's prison units. The conditions that incarcerated people go through have a large part of their problems arising from the management of the system, whether public or managed in a shared way with the private sector. In Bahia, as in the reality of most federative units, the punitive power of the State is put to the test at all times in the face of its inefficiency and the countless violent events perpetrated by the Public Administration itself or even by the barbaric moments of violence that come from the prison dynamics and its domination by criminal factions. It is known that the origin of such a social problem is multifactorial, but the forms of management adopted can contribute greatly to the alleviation. In this context, public management, although it is the majority in prison units, has been giving way to the performance of the private sector (co-management) and which is often seen as the lifeline for the existing chaos in the system. The study is based on a bibliographic research of an exploratory nature that adopts a qualitative-quantitative methodology to analyze the data gathered throughout the work. The work revealed that private management, even in the shared form, does not necessarily return significant improvements to the system.
