Videoconferência no ambito penal e sua importância para o Oeste do Pará

Abstract

This work has as principal objective to demonstrate the importance of the applicability of videoconference within the Criminal Procedure ambit in Para State, as an alternative mechanism to overcome numerous obstacles, particularly in the west of the state; Regarding the displacement of the prisoner or needed authorities to perform the procedural acts, particularly the interrogation of prisoners. Para West has only three prisons, two located in the city of Santarem, and one located in the city of Itaituba, insufficient to furnish demand of detainees, resulting in overcrowding, one of the most serious problems faced by the Brazilian penitentiary system. The police, without alternatives, use cells located in police stations, but they also do not include space for the considerable number of detainees, leaving them as alternative, move the inmates to other prison units located in different cities in which transact criminal action, causing great difficulties to the defendant's defense. The region of the lower and middle Amazon is an area drained by numerous rivers, and means of transport is realized mainly by the river, hampering access to such locations, for the judiciary, prosecutors (members of Ministerial Public), lawers, experts, witnesses, etc. member of the una audience. This problem related to prison, decentralized in the west of Pará, is a serious problem. In the peak period of technological upgrades is unacceptable that so many rights are violated by the absence of legal practitioners,and by the distances and difficulties in access to more distant cities. Because this scenario on January 8th, in 2009, the Law no. 11,900, tried to regulate the interrogation by videoconference, in order to enable this activity quickly and economically.