{"id":4904,"date":"2015-06-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.conectas.org.inf.br\/wp\/noticias\/legal-setback\/"},"modified":"2017-12-09T18:44:42","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T18:44:42","slug":"legal-setback","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/legal-setback\/","title":"Legal setback","content":"

\"\"The S\u00e3o Paulo State Court will open this Tuesday, June 16, the first State Prison Sentence Enforcement Department in S\u00e3o Paulo. These departments will eventually replace the state\u2019s prison sentence enforcement courts, which are currently decentralized. According to civil society organizations and bodies of the justice system, such as the Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office and the Public Defender\u2019s Office, this is no cause for celebration. They claim that the new departments will distance judges even further from the prisons and the cases under their responsibility.<\/p>\n

The monitoring of detention conditions by the Judiciary is provided for in the Prison Sentence Enforcement Law and it is essential, for example, to combat the practice of torture. The centralization of the courts will make individual monitoring by judges even more difficult \u2013 particularly when considering that the prison population of S\u00e3o Paulo (207,400 people, according to data from the Ministry of Justice) is the largest in the country.<\/p>\n

In a statement of condemnation<\/u><\/a> released today, institutions that work with human rights affirmed that the measure will distance the judges from the convicted prisoners, instead of bringing them closer. According to the organizations, in addition to diverting the judges from their responsibility to monitor prison sentences, the new departments also violate the natural judge principle and the impartiality and independence of judges.<\/p>\n

This, they explain, is because the State Court can appoint or transfer the judges responsible for the departments \u2013 in the prison sentence enforcement courts, judges cannot be removed, which minimizes the chances of interference or intimidation.<\/p>\n

Click here<\/u><\/a> to read the statement in full.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2014, in an unprecedented joint effort, the Office of the Attorney General, the Public Defender\u2019s Office, the Brazilian Bar Association, the S\u00e3o Paulo Public Prosecutor\u2019s Office and the Association of Judges for Democracy filed a Direct Action of Unconstitutionality<\/a> in the Supreme Court against Law 1208\/2013<\/u><\/a>, which created the departments. In December, Conectas and Pastoral Carcer\u00e1ria, the Catholic Church\u2019s prisoner outreach service, submitted an amicus curiae<\/u><\/a> reinforcing the thesis that the S\u00e3o Paulo law violates constitutional principles. The case is pending a decision by the justices of the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Challenged in the Supreme Court, prison sentence enforcement departments are set up in S\u00e3o Paulo<\/p>\n","author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"tema":[],"class_list":["post-4904","noticia","type-noticia","status-publish","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"author":false},"yoast":{"focuskw":"","title":"","metadesc":"","linkdex":"","metakeywords":"","meta-robots-noindex":"","meta-robots-nofollow":"","meta-robots-adv":"","canonical":"","redirect":"","opengraph-title":"","opengraph-description":"","opengraph-image":"","twitter-title":"","twitter-description":"","twitter-image":""},"featured_image":[],"terms":{"acoes_categorias":[],"acoes_tags":[],"category":[{"term_id":7,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":7,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1550,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/category\/news\/","relative_link":"category\/news\/","langs":{"en":"news","br":"noticia-conectas"}}],"post_tag":[]},"author_name":"Leonardo Medeiros","author_nicename":"leonardo-medeiros","protected":false,"langs":{"en":"legal-setback","br":"legal-setback"},"permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/legal-setback\/","relative_url":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/legal-setback\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/4904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4904"},{"taxonomy":"tema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tema?post=4904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}