Apresentação 

(…) rather than try to imagine one single alternative to the existing system of incarceration, we might envision an array of alternatives that will require radical transformations of many aspects of our society. Alternatives that fail to address racism, male dominance, homophobia, class bias, and other structures of dominance will not, in final analysis, lead to decarceration (…).

Angela y. Davis (2003) Are Prisons Obsolete?, N.Y., Open Media:108

Organizar de uma discussão luso-norte-americana sobre argumentos abolicionistas das penitenciárias

What is the best argument to abolish penitentiary system? The argument that uses de repulsive feelings about the harm produced by institutional means, in the inmates and their families and friends. Or the argument that uses the irrational of using institutional ways to disperse the possibilities of searching the truth?