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...
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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...