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Goal
Objective
Goal 1
Establish patronatos and other post-prison support organizations.
Goal 2
Encourage the creation and establishment of community councils.
Goal 3
Establish an independent Ombudsman’s Office with its own mandate.
Goal 4
Establish prosecution services attached to prison administration bodies.
Goal 5
Establish disciplinary boards in prisons.
Goal 6
Establish technical committees on classification at every prison.
Goal 7
Draft a prison statute and internal rules.
Goal 8
Establish or expand legal support services at every prison.
Goal 9
Encourage the expansion of public defender services in order to provide full
legal support to prisoners.
Goal 10
Encourage the expansion of alternative penalties and measures.
Goal 11
Create career structures for prison staff and develop career paths.
Goal 12
Increase the number of prison staff.
Goal 13
Create a school of prison administration.
Goal 14
Join projects or agreements to provide full health care to inmates.
Goal 15
Join school, literacy and vocational training programmes.
Goal 16
Create reading rooms and libraries.
Goal 17
Introduce work programmes in prisons.
Goal 18
Join or develop projects to support prisoners’ families.
Goal 19
Maintenance of data in the Penitentiary Information System (INFOPEN).
Goal 20
Build, extend or remodel in order to increase prison capacity.
Goal 21
Invest in equipping or re-equipping prisons.
Goal 22
Join projects to support female prisoners and ex-prisoners.
67.
The Prison System Master Plan, which was revised in 2012,17 is a tool that seeks to
guide the actions of the federal entities. With respect to the prison system, it is a planning
instrument in the remit of the Prison Policy Directorate of the National Penitentiary
Department. The Plan is subdivided into strategic areas: the justice system, modernization
of management, and social reintegration.
68.
The Prison Policy Directorate of the Ministry of Justice set up a Master Plan
Committee drawn from the following areas of the National Penitentiary Department:
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Document available at: http://portal.mj.gov.br/depen/main.asp?ViewID=%7B71FD341F-05314BAB-A567-72586745CB18%7D¶ms=itemId=%7B2AC5EC2A-C783-4C72-9B1465BE75D88371%7D;&UIPartUID=%7b2868BA3C-1C72-4347-BE11-A26F70F4CB26%7D.
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