Abstract
The article addressed the importance of shared management between the public and private sectors within the Brazilian prison system. The concepts were approached in the view of the main administrative administrators, as well as the modalities and main characteristics of the PPPs. The main objective of this work is to identify the use of Public Private Partnerships in contrast to the prisons of Minas Gerais and Amazonas based on the modern form of public management that is the Public-Private partnerships, especially in the issue of prison system management, still contaminated by the dysfunctions of Bureaucracy Theory. It was concluded that the process of public-private partnership promotes a better approximation between the public power and society.