This thesis, using decolonial authors, postcolonial and Afro-Diasporic thought, specially the thinkers of the south, seeks to understand the coloniality of being as a mobilizer of structural oppressions as race, gender, sexuality and class, pointing out how criminal justice and the penitentiary system, in the course of history, are central devices in the perpetuation of violence on the bodies and subjectivities of those who have been binarized and racialized in order to be subalternized in relation to the subject understood as hegemonic: male, white and hetenormative. Through these lenses, will be made a re-reading of the decisions pronounced by the inter-American human rights system on cases that deal with prisons in Brazil between 1988 and 2018, in order to understand the limits and potentials of strategic litigation for the anti-punitive struggle. Finally, in order to understand the position of the various actors in the combat or reproduction of the racist coloniality of gender in the litigation, we analyze all the pieces of the Provisional Measure Persons Deprived of Liberty in the Cured Complex. Brazil from 2006 to 2014.