Flaviopédia Português
Brazil without Fear

More prisons, fewer criminals on the loose

Provides for 5 new maximum-security prisons on the El Salvador model, isolation of gang leaders and half a million new prison spaces in 4 years, with the states.

In the program: [p. 14] · Translated by Flaviopédia from the official Portuguese text; the Portuguese quote is authoritative. Read the original in Portuguese

What the program says

Brazil will have 5 new maximum-security prisons on the model adopted by El Salvador. Together with the current 5 federal prisons, they will form the “Complexo Federal de Segurança Máxima” (“Federal Maximum Security Complex”). To take fear away from the citizen and put fear into the criminal, it will be called TREVA (literally “darkness”). Gang leaders and highly dangerous thugs will be taken out of circulation and isolated. With this, criminals will no longer control the criminal factions from inside the prisons, as happens today. They will live without cell phones, without conjugal visits and with monitored visits. In partnership with the state governments, we will create half a million new spaces in the prison system in 4 years and eliminate the prison-space deficit. Those who commit serious crimes will understand that prison is punishment. [p. 14]

In plain language

  • The program provides for 5 new maximum-security prisons, on the model adopted by El Salvador.
  • Together with the 5 current federal prisons, they would form the Federal Maximum Security Complex, which would be called TREVA.
  • Gang leaders and high-risk criminals would be isolated. The text states that today they control factions from inside the prisons and that this would stop.
  • These prisoners would have no cell phones and no conjugal visits, and visits would be monitored.
  • In partnership with the state governments, the program proposes creating half a million new spaces in the prison system in 4 years and eliminating the prison-space deficit.

What is not in the program

  • It gives no cost or funding source for the new prisons and the new spaces.
  • It does not state where the new prisons would be located or the timeline for completing them; the 4-year timeline refers to the new spaces.
  • It does not describe which elements of the El Salvador model would be adopted.
  • It does not define criteria for classifying a prisoner as a gang leader or as high-risk.
  • It does not detail how responsibilities would be divided with the states or the current size of the prison-space deficit.