摘要：The main purpose of this article is to verify the influences that the penitentiary architecture has on social rights in the penitentiary system. According to the law, the prisoner should only be devoid from his freedom, but, actually, he sees himself mitigated from most of his social rights, as food, work, health, education, among others. This text describes an analysis of this kind of buildings performance in its purposes of guaranteeing the social rights, by observing the architectonic aspects used during the prison space planning, so that it is possible to verify the associations between the first intentions of the project and its reached effects, as the modifications after use. This study shows that those rights do not need to be eliminated, under any circumstance or reason, and they are possible in such context if appropriate public policies are applied.
