Recentemente, na revista Security Management, de 7 de junho de 2011, foi publicada matéria que divulgava a transformação de um estabelecimento penal feminino no Colorado, Estados Unidos, em um Centro de Treinamento Internacional.
Informava a matéria, para os que pouco conhecem (ou, na realidade, nada sabem) sobre o sistema penitenciário brasileiro, que, no Brasil, é comum encontrar no mesmo estabelecimento penal uma pessoa presa por furto de aparelho de som de carros juntamente com um membro de gangue acusado de incontáveis homicídios. Isso porque o sistema de classificação do preso é precário, gerando críticas pelos grupos defensores dos direitos humanos.
Em resposta a essa situação, uma proposta para a transformação de um antigo estabelecimento penal feminino no Colorado em centro de treinamento pode ser uma solução para o problema, capacitando agentes brasileiros e outros de países diversos, melhorando os seus sistemas prisionais.
O referido centro é um dos primeiros dessa natureza, sendo parte de uma colaboração entre o Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) e o State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL). Tal colaboração permitirá que parceiros estrangeiros possam desenvolver programas que atendam as suas necessidades específicas.
Foi anunciado o investimento de 1.5 milhões de dólares pelo State Department para que o estabelecimento penal feminino de Colorado em Cañon City seja transformado no Centro Internacional de Treinamento e Gestão Correicional (International Correctional Management Training Center). O centro promoverá o treinamento de agentes de segurança e oficiais de diversos países em que o sistema penitenciário enfrenta dificuldades, incluindo o Brasil. O investimento garante o capital inicial, bem como fundos para 1 (um) ano de treinamento no local.
Matéria original retirada da Revista Security Management de 7 de junho de 2011.
Texto original completo a seguir:
Former Women’s Prison To Become International Corrections Training Center
By Carlton Purvis 07/06/2011
In a Brazilian prison, it wouldn’t be uncommon for a person serving time for stealing car stereos to be housed with a gang member accused of multiple murders.The Brazilian prison system’s lack of a classification system has garnered criticism from human rights groups like Amnesty International and the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. A proposed corrections training center in Colorado might help to address these problems by training Brazilian and other international officials in improving their prison systems. The center is the first of its kind and will be part of an ongoing collaboration between the CDOC and the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL). It will allow INL and CDOC to work with different foreign partners to develop programs to fit their specific needs, State Department spokesperson Susan Pittman told Security Management, Wednesday. The State Department announced Tuesday that a $1.5 million grant will turn the former Colorado Women’s Correctional Facility in Cañon City, Colorado, into the International Correctional Management Training Center. The center will provide training for international corrections officials from countries like Brazil where the prison systems are still developing or plagued with problems. The grant provides start-up money and one year of funding for in-residence training courses. “[The center will train] Different groups that need assistance stabilizing their criminal justice system, and of course prisons are a part of that. You can’t have a safe and secure and fair criminal justice system without having well run prisons,” spokesperson for the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC), Katherine Sanguinetti told Security Management. “In the past two years we’ve worked a lot on Central and South America. We’ve trained four groups of Mexicans on different aspects of the parole system for example,” Sanguinetti said. In the recent past, groups of architects and case managers from Brazil were trained in building prisons with different security classifications and assigning prisoners to different custody levels, for example, while Mexican parole officers trained for high-risk transports.They’ve also trained staff from El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize. “We’ve also began work in the last six to eight months working with groups out of Afghanistan and Morocco,” Sanguinetti said. A group from Pakistan will be arriving to train next week.