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      Pedro Correa: yet another illegality by Barbosa

      Prosecutor Marcelus Ugiette, from the Criminal Enforcement Court of Pernambuco, considers the imprisonment of the former federal deputy, transferred to a closed-regime unit in the Recife Metropolitan Region, illegal; the situation is analogous to that of other convicts in Criminal Action 470 who, since November 15th, have been in closed-regime at the Papuda Penitentiary in Brasília.

      RECIFE, PE, 12/27/2013: PEDRO CORRÊA/MENSALÃO/PE - Former federal deputy Pedro Corrêa, convicted in the Mensalão trial, arrives for a forensic medical examination at the Institute of Legal Medicine (IML), in the Santo Amaro neighborhood, in the central area of ​​the capital. (Photo: Gisele Federicce)

      Pernambuco 247 – The prosecutor of the Criminal Enforcement Court of Pernambuco, Marcelus Ugiette, considers the arrest of former federal deputy Pedro Corrêa, sent this Friday, the 27th, to the Professor Everardo Luna Observation and Sorting Center (Cotel), in Abreu e Lima, in the Metropolitan Region of Recife, to be illegal.

      The former parliamentarian was sentenced to seven years and two months in prison in Criminal Action 470, under a semi-open regime. However, the unit to which he was transferred is a closed regime. "Anyone who has been sentenced to a term under a semi-open regime should not remain in a closed regime. It's absurd, it's illegal," the prosecutor declared in an interview with Globo's G1 portal.

      Pedro Corrêa was initially imprisoned in the Papuda Penitentiary in Brasília, but as soon as he surrendered to the Federal Police, he requested to serve his sentence in his home state of Pernambuco. When he landed in Recife this Friday, there was no determination of which unit he should be sent to. "If there was no definition of where he should stay, they should have taken him to the semi-open regime unit, and let him wait there for this pseudo-definition," criticized Marcelus Ugiette.

      In Pernambuco, there are four semi-open prison units, located in the cities of Itamaracá, Canhotinho, Salgueiro, and Petrolina. There is still no date set for a new transfer. Corrêa's situation is analogous to that of other convicts in AP 470 who were sentenced to the semi-open regime, but who have been under closed regime in Papuda prison since November 15th, such as former minister José Dirceu and former PT treasurer Delúbio Soares.