Prisoners from Londrina will be transferred.

Paraná News Agency - The State Secretariat of Justice, Citizenship and Human Rights will transfer 64 of the 279 prisoners currently held in Londrina's prisons, under the custody of the Public Security Secretariat, to penitentiary establishments in the city. The prisoners will leave the police stations and be taken to the two state penitentiaries in the region (PEL I and PEL II) and to the Londrina Detention Center (CCL).

The transfer begins this Friday with 19 prisoners and will continue in the coming days. With this, the three police stations in Londrina, which together hold 260 prisoners, will have a prison population of less than 72 inmates, the limit set by the Judge of the Criminal Execution Court (VEP).

The transfers were determined by the Secretary of Justice, Maria Tereza Uille Gomes, and communicated this Friday morning (21) by the director of Depen (Department of Penal Execution), Cezinando Paredes, during a meeting with the judge of the Penal Execution Court of the District, Katsujo Nakadomari, and representatives of the Public Ministry, Public Defender's Office and OAB of Londrina, to discuss prison overcrowding in the police districts of the municipality.

Paredes also presented Maria Tereza's request for urgent prison task forces specifically targeting pretrial detainees in the municipality. A survey conducted by the Justice Department indicates that of the 279 prisoners in Londrina's Civil Police units, 82 are detained for non-violent crimes. In these cases, if convicted, these prisoners will face sentences of less than 4 years, which should be served in an open regime.

"It's a matter of justice, of respecting the rights of these people. This situation constitutes a more severe punishment than what will be imposed on the prisoner in case of conviction. It is an undue restriction on the right to liberty," states the secretary. At the same time, another 110 people are imprisoned for drug possession; dozens of them detained with small quantities of drugs more consistent with that of a user. This is also a situation that needs to be reviewed on a case-by-case basis, giving differentiated treatment to the user and rigorously punishing those who are actually traffickers, emphasizes Maria Tereza.

According to the secretary, the overcrowding in Londrina's police stations is mainly due to the fact that the Civil Police have been doing a great job in the region, arresting more people than before. To give an idea of ​​this volume, of the 279 prisoners, 83 were arrested in the last 30 days, averaging almost three arrests per day. In 2012, an agreement signed by SEJU and SESP stipulated that the weekly transfer of 15 prisoners from the police stations of the Londrina district to penitentiaries was sufficient. Although this agreement has been more than adequately fulfilled, the police stations have once again become overcrowded.

According to the agreement, the average number of transfers in 2012 was 31 prisoners per week; in 2013, it was 29 prisoners; and, as of this Thursday, 183 prisoners had already been transferred this year alone. These transfers follow a dynamic that the Paraná State Government has implemented throughout the state since the beginning of this administration in 2011, says the Secretary of Justice. "In these just over three years, more than 29 prisoners have already been transferred from police station and district holding cells to units of the Paraná penitentiary system. With this, we have reduced the number of prisoners in the SESP (State Secretariat of Public Security) from 16.205 on January 1, 2011 to 9.941 prisoners today," emphasizes Maria Tereza.

During the same period, the total number of prisoners in the State, including those detained by SESP and SEJU, fell from 30.521 to 28.409, representing a monthly savings of over R$ 4 million for public coffers. This reduction is due to the 26 prison task forces carried out and the use of the State's prison information system, BI - Business Intelligence, which allows managers to know in detail the life and prison situation of each inmate, granting them benefits and guaranteeing their progression of regime and release when they have acquired the right.

LONDRINA - To definitively solve the problem, construction will begin in March to create 794 new spaces in Londrina's prison system. The detention center (CCL) will be expanded by 196 spaces for pretrial detainees. A new public jail will be built, with 382 spaces also for pretrial detainees, and a Social Integration Center, with 216 spaces for prisoners in the semi-open regime. The expansion works of the CCL and the Social Integration Center will be completed by the end of the year. The new jail will be delivered in 12 months.

PARANÁ - Across the entire state of Paraná, 6.670 new prison spaces will be created with the completion of 20 projects that are already underway and will cost R$ 161 million from state and federal governments. Eight penitentiaries will be expanded, opening 3.082 spaces for those in maximum-security prisons; and six new public jails will be built, opening 2.292 spaces for pretrial detainees, and six social integration centers, with 1.296 spaces for prisoners in semi-open regimes. Construction in Ponta Grossa and Piraquara began this week. The remaining projects will start by March.