Approved this Tuesday 20th, in a deliberative session of the federal Senate, the bill banning “sadinha” received 62 votes in favour, two against and one abstention. Although it has already been approved in the Chamber of Deputies, where it was proposed, the text will have to return to the legislative chamber of origin before being sanctioned by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT).
This is because the original project underwent changes during its preparation in the Senate. In these cases, you will have to return to the next Chamber to examine the changes made to the original text.
The changes were made by speaker Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ), who presented an amendment that, if approved, the law would be called the “Prime Minister Sergeant Dias Law”, in honor of the military police sergeant of Minas Gerais, who died in January 2023 by an inmate who did not re-enter the prison system after benefiting from temporary release at the end of the year.
The Plenary of the Federal Senate during the ordinary deliberative session this Tuesday 21st, which approved PL 2.253 of 2022.
The Plenary of the Federal Senate during an ordinary deliberative session this Tuesday 21, which approved PL 2.253 of 2022. Photo: Jefferson Rudy/Agência Senado
The fallout from the crime gave impetus to the bill to quickly move to the Senate, where it arrived in 2022. By comparison, the bill was proposed in 2011 and was on trial for ten years until it was approved by the House.
The senator also responded to the amendment presented by his colleague Sérgio Moro (União-PR), which maintains the possibility for semi-open prisoners to leave prison to attend supplementary professional courses, secondary or higher studies. The text reached the Senate abolishing the “saidinha” in any case, but, with Moro’s intervention, the benefit was maintained only in this situation.
Questioned by Estadao regarding the project that is expected to be on the agenda of the day, the Speaker of the House Arthur Lira (PP-AL) did not respond until the publication of this text.
Other points
The text approved by the Senate also modifies the rules for the progression of the sentence regime. If the issue becomes law, the benefit can only be granted to those with “good prison conduct”, which must be certified by the prison director and by a criminological examination based on criteria such as self-discipline, low dangerousness and common sense of the prisoner. of responsibility.
The proposal also provides for mandatory electronic monitoring of prisoners transitioning to semi-open and open regimes.
Currently, authorization is given to prisoners who have served at least one sixth of their sentence, in the case of a first conviction, and a quarter, in the case of repeat offenders. “Sayinhas” occur up to five times a year and cannot exceed a period of seven days.
Since 2018, around 34 thousand prisoners, on average, met the prerequisites that allowed them to access the right – which corresponds to 5.2% of the prison population held in physical cells in Brazil in June 2023, according to data from the 14th Penitentiary Information Harvest cycle. About 4% of inmates did not return to prison after temporary release.
Vote
The only votes against were those of senators Cid Gomes (PSB-CE) and Rogério Carvalho (PT-SE). The only abstention was that of Senator Jaques Wagner (PT-BA). See the full list with each senator’s vote here.
Source: Terra
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