A total of 122,000 people wore electronic anklet in Brazil until December last year, according to the latest data available. The information is from the last report published by Senappen (National Secretariat of Criminal Policies), linked to the Ministry of Justice.
The former president (PL) passed this statistics last Friday (18). By determination of the minister, (Federal Supreme Court), he had the tracker arrested to his ankle. The former president will also have to comply with nightly home collection, from 7 pm to 7am, and on weekends, full time, among other restrictions.
The number of people monitored with anklets by the penitentiary system is equivalent to the population of the city of Barretos, in the interior of São Paulo. Senappen data show that this contingent has grown rapidly in recent years. The number of equipment in use more than doubled in less than five years.
In the first half of 2020, there were 51,900 people in house arrest using the equipment. The increase until the second half of last year was 135%.
Most people monitored with electronic anklets are in Paraná. The state had almost 18,000 people in house arrest monitored with anklets. São Paulo, the most populous state in the country, had only 731 people in the same condition, according to the report. The state government has a program in progress to expand the use of the equipment.
Of the total people who are serving time with electronic anklets, most of them are semi -open – when the prisoner is allowed to leave during the day to work or study, but it is mandatory to go back to sleep in a prison unit. There were 65,600 arrested in this regime monitored virtually.
Another 29,000 monitors were arrested provisional (with a warrant of pre -trial or temporary arrest, but still with no condemnatory sentence to serve a sentence). In addition, 22,000 used the equipment while serving open regime, and 4,239 were closed.
In the latter case, the prisoners who, even after receiving a sentence in closed regime, receive the benefit of house arrest. They are usually convicted who are over 70 years old, serious illness, pregnant women and women with small or disabled children.
Senappen’s report also shows that there is a stock of over 50,000 electronic anklets linked to state governments.
Bolsonaro is a defendant in a criminal case in the Supreme Court that addresses the 2022 coup plot to prevent the president’s inauguration (PT). In this criminal action, he is accused of the crimes of coup, attempted abolition of the Democratic Rule of Law, armed criminal association, damage qualified to public property and deterioration of the listed assets.
The decision to monitor the former president with anklet meets, who pointed out the measure as urgent to “ensure the application of criminal law and avoid the defendant’s escape.” According to the agency, there is “indications of the concrete possibility of escape from the defendant and the maintenance of actions to obstruct the course of criminal action”.
How it showed the SheetMoraes’s decision is based on publications on the social networks of Bolsonaro, Eduardo and Trump ,.
In the decision that determined an operation against the former president, Moraes stated that Jair Bolsonaro’s statements and the performance of the deputy (PL-SP) in the US are attacking national sovereignty, citing the tariff announced by the US president as an “extortion” against Brazilian justice.
The minister mentions that Bolsonaro has in an interview conditioned the end of the sanction to his amnesty.
