Photo: Tânia Rêgo/Agência Brasil
Rio de Janeiro is already starting the year with fugitive cases. Of the 1,785 prisoners who benefited from the Periodic Home Visit (VPL) by the Rio de Janeiro courts, 253 have not returned to prison, being considered fugitives.
All were serving their sentences in a semi-open regime and should have reported by 10pm on December 30, but they did not show up. The abandonment corresponds to 14%, a reduction compared to the previous year, which had recorded an abandonment rate of 42%.
Among the escaped prisoners, according to information from the Secretariat of State of the Penitentiary Administration (SEAP), there are two former heads of the Red Command: Saulo Cristiano Oliveira Dias, known as SL, and Paulo Sérgio Gomes da Silva, also known as Bin Laden.
Saulo Cristiano comes from the Complexo do Chapadão and was arrested in Sao Paulo in 2013, together with Luiz Fernando do Nascimento Ferreira, known as Nando do Bacalhau, considered highly dangerous. Paulo Sérgio was responsible for drug trafficking in the Dona Marta favela, in Botafogo, in the South Zone.
According to Seap, the 1,785 inmates benefiting from the VPL left the prison departments starting at 6 am on December 24 to spend Christmas with their families.
They received temporary permission from the Court to leave the penal units, as per the benefit of periodic home visits, popularly known as “saidão” in Natal. The deadline for re-entry into the prison system was December 30, and the majority respected the determination.
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The São Paulo State Department of Public Security (SSP) announced that 398 inmates on temporary release were rearrested and returned to prison early for failing to comply with benefits regulations.
The Military Police, in collaboration with other institutions, now have the autonomy to investigate and return prisoners caught violating the rules directly to prisons. The verification is carried out at the time of approach, by consulting the mobile devices and tablets present in the vehicles, which now have access to the information relating to the conditions established for each of the beneficiaries.
Proposed law against trips and outingsOne of the proposals against “saidinhas” and “saidões” is PL 2.253/22, already approved by the Chamber in August 2022, and which is now awaiting analysis in the Senate.
The PL also addresses the electronic monitoring of prisoners in a semi-open or conditional regime, as well as providing criminological examinations for the advancement of the regime.
The necessity of criminological examinations, which involve psychological analysis and evaluation of the condemned person’s conduct, for the advancement of the regime was defended by Senator Sérgio Moro. Moro reported that he successfully applied this measure when he worked as a judge of criminal executions at the federal prison of Catanduvas (PR).
2024-01-01 16:21:45
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