IDENTITY AS A PERSONAL RIGHT: THE DISCIPLINARY REGULATIONS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROTECTION AND ASSISTANCE OF CONVICTS (APAC) AND THE DEPERSONALIZATION OF THE INCARCERATED SUBJECT

Abstract

This article seeks to address the phenomenon
of the Association for the Protection and
Assistance of Convicts (APAC), with a special
focus on the study of its disciplinary rules.
This association will be presented in the paper
as a kind of self-governing prison institution,
created with the aim of restructuring the
Brazilian prison scene. The general aim
of the research is to analyze whether the
APAC system’s disciplinary rules violate the
prisoners’ right to identity, which is analyzed
in this paper as a personality right. Thus, as
a research question, the aim is to analyse
whether the APAC system’s disciplinary
regulations, due to their disciplinary sanctions,
can present themselves as an instrument for
depersonalizing the incarcerated subject,
violating the very personal right to identity of
the individuals who serve time in the prisons
designed by the association. To develop the work, the hypothetical-deductive approach
method was used, as well as the procedural
techniques of bibliographical research and
documentary research. The conclusion of
the research is that the right to identity
of prisoners, understood in this work as
a personality right, can be violated by the
particular disciplinary sanctions laid down
in the disciplinary regulations of the APAC
system.

KEYWORDS: Identity. Personal Rights.
Association for the Protection and Assistance
of Convicts. Disciplinary Regulations.