Prison units in Icoaraci and the Cremação neighborhood receive videoconferencing kits
Partnership between Seap, the Court of Justice, and Senappen enables the installation of equipment for virtual hearings and visits
The Custody and Reintegration Unit of Icoaraci (a district of Belém) and the Central Provisional Custody of Cremação, a neighborhood in the capital, received videoconferencing rooms, which allow connection with the Criminal Courts, enabling virtual hearings and visits to people in custody.
Only in 2025, the estimate is to deliver 63 kits for the installation of the system, resulting from the technical cooperation agreement signed between the State Secretariat of Penitentiary Administration (Seap), the Court of Justice of the State of Pará (TJPA), and the National Secretariat of Penal Policies (Senappen), of the Ministry of Justice and Public Security.
The Deputy Secretary of Operational Management of Seap, Ringo Alex Rayol – who represented the head Marco Antonio Sirotheau Correa Rodrigues – said that "this assistance is improving the quality of service, providing tranquility and valuing penitentiary management, bringing social peace and ensuring excellent service to the prison population."
Reintegration - For the director of the Custody and Reintegration Unit of Icoaraci, Colonel PM Marcelo Costa, society also benefits from investments in modernization. "Our Unit, besides being for custody, is for reintegration. Here, lives are transformed so that they can return to social coexistence with a new perspective," emphasized the director.
According to the director of the Central Provisional Custody of Cremação, Ruth Benassuly, technology will mainly assist people deprived of liberty from the interior of Pará, as there is great logistical complexity to enable the transportation of detainees or their family members.
Humanization - The president of the Court of Justice of Pará, Judge Roberto Gonçalves de Moura, considers that "the delivery of the kits represents a concrete advance within this ongoing effort to qualify our services, ensuring operational efficiency and promoting an increasingly fair and humanized performance."
According to Judge Roberto Gonçalves de Moura, "there is something even more important at stake: the possibility that, even in contexts of deprivation of liberty, family and emotional bonds can be maintained. The virtual visit, in this sense, is not just a simple logistical benefit. It is a link of care, memory, and humanity."
Positive reflection - With the implementation of videoconferencing, the goal is to promote savings, procedural speed, and access to justice, reducing by 100% the number of criminal hearings not held due to the absence of the prisoner. Another positive reflection is the decrease in the prison population of provisional detainees.
Seap is responsible for ensuring the necessary physical and technical infrastructure for the prison units, with individualized rooms, adequate connectivity, security, and accessibility. TJPA is responsible for acquiring, installing, and maintaining the videoconferencing kits, as well as managing the platform.
It is up to Senappen to monitor and supervise the execution of the project, ensuring the proper use of federal resources, aimed at strengthening legal assistance through the implementation of virtual visits and hearings.
