The Humanitas360 Institute launches today, March 17, the mini-documentary “Green Doors: Temporary Leave”. In about five minutes, the film explains what temporary prison releases are, why they exist, and why they are at risk. Produced with support from the Phi Institute, the film is narrated by Gih Trajano, a writer and poet who experienced incarceration firsthand.
The date chosen for the premiere is meaningful: our team is at this very moment at the gates of the Tremembé Women’s Penitentiary II, in the countryside of São Paulo, welcoming incarcerated people on semi-open regime and their families during the first temporary leave of 2026. The initiative provides legal guidance, clothing, food, and hygiene kits to those families — made possible only through the presence of partners and volunteers, including the social business Tereza, Comunidade Carcerária (2C), the Pro Bono Institute, and the Law program at Mackenzie University – Alphaville.
Supported by the Phi Institute, the film and the field activities are two sides of the same project, “Green Doors: Temporary Leave,” created with the goal of providing hands-on support at this critical stage of the social reintegration of incarcerated people while also educating society about the temporary leave mechanism — a frequent target of misinformation and distortion by penal populism.
Although official data from the National Council of Justice show that 95.9% of people return from prison furloughs on time, a law passed in 2024 drastically restricted this right. A study by H360’s legal department projects that by 2034, no incarcerated person will have access to the benefit under its previous terms — representing the dismantling of one of the country’s most important social reintegration tools, with a direct impact on recidivism, family ties, and the dignity of hundreds of thousands of people.
Watch the mini-doc below:
