Three years ago, it was implemented at the national level and Ceará adhered to prison health policy. With it, Ceará assumed the challenge of providing assistance to the health of persons deprived of their liberty in Ceará, in accordance with the legal provisions advocated by the Federal Constitution of 1988 and the National Policy of Attention to the Health of Persons Deprived of Liberty (PNAISP). The general objective of this study is to analyze the implementation of prison health policy in Ceará. The specific objectives are to describe a situational diagnosis of the health conditions of the population deprived of liberty in the State of Ceará; to identify the main difficulties for the operationalization of the prison  health actions of the Fortaleza-Ceará metropolitan region and to propose an instrument to monitor the implementation of the Prison Health Policy Actions in Ceará. It was a study of mixed methods, divided into three phases: the first one based on data analysis, the second consisting of focus groups and the third the construction of the monitoring instruments for the implementation of prison health actions. The state has advances in prison health, but still  faces major challenges that prevent the implementation of the PNAISP, which translate into overcrowding in prisons, the reduced number of prison staff and health professionals, associated with the prevalence of security logic to the detriment of law the health. However, the proposal of the created instrument contributes to the operationalization of prison health actions, as a way of meeting the needs pointed out by the research participants, aiming at improving the quality of the services rendered and attending to the population, which is deprived of the right to coming and going, but not to the right to health.

Keywords: Prison. Prison Health and Health Care Networks.