This Wednesday (26), Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court decided to decriminalize the possession of marijuana for personal use, establishing a limit of 40 grams or six female Cannabis sativa plants. The trial, which took nine years to conclude, represents a late advance in relation to the Drug Law, which since 2006 has promoted mass incarceration in...
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20/06/202428/06/2024
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Working group led by president of H360 at CNPCP organizes debates on the war on drugs and mass incarceration in São Paulo
On June 17th and 18th, the Working Group on Drug Policy and Incarceration of the National Council for Criminal and Penitentiary Policy organized public debates in São Paulo to discuss the war on drugs and mass incarceration of young Black people. Led by the president of the Humanitas360 Institute, Patrícia Villela Marino, the group brought...
29/05/202429/05/2024
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Joined by H360, public hearing debates drug policy and incarceration in Brasília
On May 21, the National Council for Criminal and Penitentiary Policy held in Brasília, at the headquarters of the Ministry of Justice, the public hearing “Decriminalization of Drugs and its Impacts on the Prison and Judiciary System”. The president of the Humanitas360 Institute, Patrícia Villela Marino, who is part of the collegiate, opened the event...
24/04/202429/04/2024
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President of H360 speaks at National Secretariat for Penal Policies event about work in the prison system
On April 16, the president of the Humanitas360 Institute participated in the National Seminar on Work in the Prison System, held by the National Secretariat for Penal Policies in Brasília. In her speech, Patrícia Villela Marino defended the active role of civil society in the prison system, in order to collaborate so that work in...
15/04/202429/04/2024
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Article in Folha: Restricting sentence progression is populism that ignores the reality of prison
The following article was originally published in Portuguese in the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo on April 12, 2024. Brazil has a sad tradition of public figures who, unable to present adequate solutions to the problems they should solve, resort to simple formulas and easy ways out. The strategy is used by administrators who prefer...
27/03/202428/03/2024
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Women’s Month: The Impact of H360 and Tereza’s Work in Numbers
At the end of the special program for Women’s Month, the Humanitas360 Institute and the social business Tereza presented some figures on the work carried out with imprisoned women and those released from the prison system. With the implementation of the first social cooperative in São Paulo, in 2018, H360 began a journey to promote...
25/03/202425/03/2024
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PEC 45/2023 is a setback that disrupts the public debate on drugs, writes president of H360
Approved by the Senate’s Constitution and Justice Committee on March 13, the proposed amendment to the Constitution that establishes the possession of drugs in any quantity as a crime is a legal setback, a political abomination and an enormous social risk. Confusing public opinion with prejudices and criminal punitiveness, the measure reinforces the worst instincts...
04/03/202404/03/2024
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Suspending temporary releases of imprisoned people is penal populism, argues president of H360 in an interview
The following interview, conducted by journalist Valéria França, was originally published in Portuguese in Veja magazine on March 1, 2024. With the largest prison population in its history, more than 830 thousand prisoners, the Brazilian prison system has major problems, such as overcrowding, lack of operational infrastructure and organized crime. Despite the complex problems, Brazilian...
29/02/202404/03/2024
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Article: “Without proposals for public security, senators exchange the Law for penal populism”
By Patrícia Villela Marino For those who dedicate themselves to thinking about society’s problems and working towards its improvement, a maxim needs to be followed: there is no easy solution to complex problems. Faced with the crisis in Brazilian public security, the National Congress ignores this elementary idea and embraces penal populism. The most recent...
31/01/202431/01/2024
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In a Marie Claire interview, president of H360 discusses war on drugs and mass incarceration
The following interview was originally published in Portuguese in Marie Claire magazine in January 2024. When lawyer Patrícia Villela Marino recorded a video in support of President Lula in October 2022, she didn’t expect the reaction that was to come. Married for more than 20 years to Ricardo Villela Marino, chairman of Itaú’s Board of...