The following research intends to show the legal discourse influence in the incarcerating
culture. Aiming this end, a qualitative and quantitative analysis of judicial decisions handed
down by the various magistrates of the State Judiciary in Pernambuco was carried out, with
judgment for the judgment of criminal cases of inmates inserted in the female prison system
located in the District of Buíque/PE, as well as its criminal enforcement processes. It seeks to
verify whether, in view of the National Council of Justice’s Resolution 369 issue, the
representatives of the Judiciary have observed the protection orientation of the rights of mothers
and their children and dependents, in respect of the objectives outlined in the Early Childhood
Legal Framework, according to which, the fulfillment of preventive detention is substituted for
house arrest in the case of pregnant prisoners, mothers of children up to 12 (twelve) years old
or who have in their families, disabled person who depends on their care, regardless of age,
provided they have not committed a crime with violence or serious threat or against their own
children. The analysis was about the main reasons for the existence of the decisions that rejected
the substitutive measure and prioritized the precautionary prison, even in the face of the
atypicality of the pandemic period. The research is divided into two distinct moments: a
quantitative stage, in which an attempt was made to understand the functioning of criminal
justice based on the numbers extracted from decisions handed down between March 2020 and
the completion of the research, which took place in October 2022; and a qualitative stage,
formed by the analysis of the decision-making contents, through the observation of the legal
grounds used, above all, for the denial of house arrest to the group of prisoners who fulfill the
necessary requirements for its concession.