The Religions and Prison System Project, the result of a partnership between the Institute of Religious Studies and the Social Service Coordination of SEAP – RJ, aims to contribute to the qualification of religious assistance management actions in penal units in Rio de Janeiro. In September 2013, an agreement between ISER and SEAP was signed, in order to formalize the cooperation between the two institutions, which began in May of the same year.
The Instituto de Estudos da Religião, contacted by SEAP's Coordination of Social Service, began research on religious assistance by listening to different social actors who work or have worked in the prison system, such as religious agents, public agents, researchers and legal operators, with the aim of to map the perceptions about this assistance, as well as to appropriate its legal and normative devices. From the understanding of the current framework of activity in prison units, it is possible to promote actions and indications in the field of public policies that strengthen the right of the convict and the management of public power.
The agreement is based on Resolution No. 8, of November 9, 2011, of the National Council for Criminal and Penitentiary Policy (CNPCP), responsible for regulating the activity of religious assistance in penal units in Brazil, establishing a deadline for adapting to the new norms, formerly the competence of state penitentiary administration secretariats.
Responsible
Raquel Fabeni