CNJ will resume prison mutirões to review prisoner processes

The National Council of Justice (CNJ) will resume prison mutirões in the country in July. The measure aims to contribute to relieve the country’s penitentiary system, which faces overcrowding, with the review of processes and eventual replacement of prison with alternative measures. Above all, processes that include the treatment of pregnant women, mothers, fathers and guardians of children under 12 years of age and people with disabilities, as well as the situation of people serving a sentence in a more serious prison regime than that established in the condemning decision, should be reviewed, informed the CNJ. Other processes to be reviewed are those of people convicted of the practice of privileged trafficking and who are serving a sentence in a different regime than the open one. Cases of provisional arrest lasting more than 12 months should also be reviewed. The president of the CNJ, Minister Rosa Weber, will personally visit the locations where the mutirões will be carried out. The first visit will take place in the state of Mato Grosso, on July 24th, followed by Rio Grande do Norte (25th), Bahia (26th), Minas Gerais (27th) and São Paulo (28th). The prison mutirões were created by the CNJ in 2008, during the presidency of Minister Gilmar Mendes. Since then, more than 400,000 cases have been reviewed and at least 45,000 people have been released because they have already served their sentences. Yesterday (20) the President of the Federal Supreme Court (STF), Minister Rosa Weber, said that the Court should resume in August the trial of an allegation of non-compliance with a fundamental precept in which the Supreme Court declared the State of Things Unconstitutional in the prison system of the country.

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