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...
In October, the cooperative of women formerly incarcerated and in vulnerable situations supported by Humanitas360 received a donation from Dexco to help reform the space where they work in Vila Sapé, a community in the west zone of São Paulo. The work is still in its final adjustments, but the cooperative members are already installed...
The answer to the question in the title is no. Prisoners lose their political rights when they have a final conviction. The role that can be taken on by them is to make family and friends aware of the importance of voting, as stated by Flavia Maria, leader of the cooperative supported by Humanitas360 in...
The Humanitas360 Institute supports scholarship and research of its collaborator Higor Cauê in the Master Course in Political and Economic Law. Higor works on the theme “Cannabis regulation and (racial) reparation: international experiences and the Brazilian case” in the Stricto Sensu Post Graduation program of the Presbyterian University Mackenzie, in the research line “Citizenship Shaping...
The Humanitas360 Institute and the Second Judicial Court of the District of Peruíbe will soon open “Casa das Marias”, a space for refuge, technical, assistance, legal and psychological support for women in vulnerable situations, incarcerated and victims of violence. The cooperation agreement was signed with the Second Judicial Court of the District of Peruíbe in...
In July, the “Marrom: O musical” creator, Jô Santana, and the team of costume designers, Lígia Rocha, Jemima Tuany and Marco Pacheco gave a creative workshop to women incarcerated in the Pedrinhas prison complex, in Maranhão, who are members of the social cooperative created by the Humanitas360 Institute. The cooperative members will produce embroidery and...
Three million Brazilians do not have a birth certificate or any civil identification. Without these documents, you can’t have an identity card or CPF (Social Security), access to public health, education or any government assistance programs. The birth certificate is, above all, a guarantee of access to citizenship. One of these cases is that of...
On May 13th, the President of Humanitas360 Institute, Patrícia Villela Marino, received the Afro-Brazilian Civic Merit Medal, awarded annually by the Zumbi dos Palmares University. In 2022. marks a reflection on the 134 years since the signing of the Lei Áurea, which officially ended slavery in Brazil. The Afro-Brazilian Civic Merit Medal contemplates personalities who...
Such a common scene in many movies and series: for an inmate to participate in any activity outside prison, it is necessary a whole apparatus of criminal police, security and logistics. On Women’s Day week, Dorilene Lima and Bruna Ribeiro, who are serving time at Maranhão’s Women’s Prison Unit and are members of Cuxá Cooperative,...