On September 18th, TV Cultura’s Roda Viva – one of the main journalistic programs on Brazilian television – was the stage for an in-depth debate on the causes and effects of the war on drugs, such as mass incarceration, and its possible solutions. Guest of the program, the president of the Humanitas360 Institute and advisor...
On September 1st, the Humanitas360 Institute held its annual board meeting for 2023. The location chosen for the meeting was significant: the social cooperative for women prisoners set up by H360 in the São Luís Women’s Prison Unit, in Maranhão. Since 2019, this state has become one of the main points of action for the...
Initiative proposes rethinking the prohibition of drugs that can bring health benefits and stimulate the economy, in addition to allocating taxation on alcohol and tobacco to public health and public security policies The “Conselhão” created to advise President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, officially called the Sustainable Social Economic Development Council, has just established its...
Between the end of May and throughout June, the judgment in the Supreme Federal Court that may decriminalize the possession of drugs for personal consumption in Brazil was included in the agenda of at least five sessions, but all of them was postponed. Stalled in the Court since 2015, the process discusses the constitutionality of...
Last Friday (16), the Casa das Marias was inaugurated in Peruíbe, on the south coast of São Paulo. Conceived to welcome, guide and professionally train women victims of domestic violence, the project is a partnership between the Humanitas360 Institute and Somos Marias, a service network created by judge Danielle Grandinetti, of the 2nd Court of...
The following article was published on the UOL website on May 9, 2023 by journalist Maurício Businari. Widowed at 16, she became a ‘drug lord’ in São Paulo: ‘A cursed legacy’ She met her husband at 15, “an overwhelming passion”. At 16, she gave birth to a boy. She found out the love of her...
On April 27th, a Technical Cooperation Agreement was signed to guarantee three more years of operation for the social cooperative created by the Humanitas360 Institute in São Luís, Maranhão. Held at the headquarters of the State Court of Justice, the ceremony celebrated the continuity of the work started in 2020 at the Women’s Prison Unit...
Access to a bank account is a fundamental part of the social reintegration process of imprisoned people, guaranteeing more autonomy for those deprived of liberty. On March 14, an important step in this direction was taken for 15 women who are part of the cooperative created by the Humanitas360 Institute in the Women’s Prison Unit...
The LAB360 project, created by the Humanitas360 Institute to enable inmates to make social visits and study remotely, has helped write an important chapter in the history of resocialization and social reintegration in Paraíba. In the last few days, a particular story drew attention to this effort: an inmate from Campina Grande’s Regional Prison Raimundo...
In early November, the president of Humanitas360, Patrícia Villela Marino, and the institute’s director, Higor Cauê, traveled to São Luís, where they met with Judge Paulo Velten, president of the Maranhão Court of Justice. The three of them discussed the partnership signed in 2020, which enabled the implementation of the LAB360 project and the Cuxá...