THE RIGHT TO MENTAL HEALTH IN LEP AND PNAISP: A BRIEF DEBATE

Abstract

The right to the mental health of the incarcerated population is evidenced and advocated in the National Policy for Comprehensive Prison Health Care (PNAISP), approved in 2014. However, since 1984, the Penal Execution Law (LEP) presents brushstrokes of the debate in the light of the context of the time, where mental health was little understood as a basic guarantee of rights to populations in general, especially those deprived of liberty. This text seeks to address the various nuances that corroborate the historical construction of this right, as well as to enunciate some of the urgencies of the agenda in question and how it has been faced in terms of public policies in Brazil.