Brazil must combat the culture of incarceration, says Flávia Piovesan.
Michel Temer's National Secretary for Human Rights, Flávia Piovesan, says that one of the country's priorities today should be combating "the culture of incarceration," which advocates the indiscriminate imprisonment of criminals instead of adopting alternative punishments; the National Criminal and Penitentiary Policy Plan, launched during Dilma Rousseff's government in 2015, already showed that "between 1990 and 2014 the prison population increased 6,7 times, from 90 inmates to 607"; however, during the same period, "homicides almost doubled," from 31.989 to 50.806.
247 - Michel Temer's National Secretary for Human Rights, Flávia Piovesan, says that one of the country's priorities today should be combating "the culture of incarceration," which advocates the indiscriminate imprisonment of criminals instead of adopting alternative punishments. The National Criminal and Penitentiary Policy Plan, launched during Dilma Rousseff's government in 2015, already showed that "between 1990 and 2014 the prison population increased 6,7 times, from 90 inmates to 607." During the same period, however, "homicides almost doubled," from 31.989 to 50.806.
The information is column by Monica Bergamo in Folha de S.Paulo.
"The plan blames Congress for the situation. 'In current times, the legislative agenda gradually increases penalties for crimes, following ad hoc guidelines whose urgencies bear no relation to the parameters of efficiency or effectiveness required by a public policy.'"