A audiência de apresentação e os direitos humanos: o caso brasileiro

Abstract

According to the scenario of gross violations of human rights carried out inside prisons in Brazil, it is questioned the implementation of mechanisms to reduce the number of temporary prisoners, who in our country currently represent 40% of the total prison population. Seeking to combat a culture of mass incarceration, already ingrained, are institutes such as the presentation hearing, which ensures that the accused is brought before a judge within 24 hours. This institute has as its first pillar the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, in addition to other international covenants of which Brazil is a signatory. The objective was to demonstrate that this institute safeguards constitutional principles, including the presumption of innocence and its proven effectiveness in the sense of reducing the prisoners' index, economy to the public coffers and to be applied in other countries of Latin America already a few years ago . In our country, only in 2015 after the CNJ's incentive project, the referred audience gained greater visibility and began to be applied in some states of the federation. Given the proof of all the benefits acquired with the implementation of the presentation hearing, it is defended its full implementation in the country with the objective of safeguarding human rights.