The present work aims to show how the Brazilian Prison System is in a state of
decay, where the detainees are treated as human trash, left to fend for themselves,
forgotten by the Public Power, disrupting the resocializers ends of the sentence. As a
result of the state’s inertia, prisoners organize themselves to form the feared criminal
organizations and spread terror within and outside the prison, proving that the state,
by itself, does not meet the essential conditions to administer the Brazilian
Penitentiary System, requiring to either resort to private partners or through
outsourcing or public-private partnerships. The hybrid management system, in the
countries which it was implemented, has obtained good results. In Brazil, some
states of the federation are adopting and achieving satisfactory results. However for
this shared management system to be introduced in Brazil, it is necessary to break
some legal, ethical and political obstacles. In order to change this chaotic picture of
the Brazilian Prison System, it is necessary to implement the co-management in
Brazil so that the penalty fulfills its social function of reprobation and crime prevention
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