Da crise carcerária e da APAC como método de solução

Abstract

The crisis of the Brazilian prison system is of public perception. The system today has a deficit of 250,000 vacancies, and according to data from the National Penitentiary Information Survey (Infopen), produced by the National Penitentiary Department (Depen), the number of prisoners in Brazil increased 168% from 2000 to 2014. The survey also showed that, in December 2014, there were 622,000 prisoners, and the country would have the capacity to incarcerate only 371,000. Faced with this overcrowding, the State fails to fulfill one of the purposes of the penalty inscribed in law 7,210/84 (criminal execution law), namely, the social integration of the convicted person. Seeking to solve the problem, aiming at the idea of a more humane fulfillment of the sentence, always thinking about the reintegration of the individual, the research in development brings as an alternative to the private sentence the APAC project (Association for Protection and Assistance to the Convicted), created in São José dos Campos (SP) in 1972, by lawyer Mário Ottoboni, based on respect, order, work, family involvement and religion for recovery of the condemned, which has achieved good results.