The Minister of Human Rights and Citizenship, Silvio Almeida, said that drug decriminalization could help reduce the number of prisoners in the country.
“We have to treat this as a health issue, as an issue that cannot be solved through incarceration, with imprisonment, and with punishment,” he declared in an extensive interview with BBC News Brazil, published on Tuesday, April 7.
According to him, President Lula has already asked explicitly for action on the prison system.
According to Almeida, “the dynamics of the Brazilian state have developed from a false idea that punishment would somehow be the fundamental element of . . .
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