The Superior School of the Judges of the State of Tocantins (Esmat) will promote, on March 24th and 25th, the course on "Precautionary Measures Other than Imprisonment and Proportionality in the Penal System ". Requested by the Group for Monitoring and Supervision of the Prison System and Implementation of Socio-educational Measures (GMF), the initiative comes in response to the Unconstitutional State of Things (ECI) in the Brazilian penitentiary system, recognized by the Supreme Federal Court (STF) in 2015.
The course is a strategic action to train judicial agents to act in an integrated way, focusing on accountability with dignity and reduction of incarceration, according to the guidelines of the Resolution No. 288 of the National Council of Justice (CNJ), of 2019.
The activities will be carried out in person at the School, with the aim of "train civil servers who work in the Centers and in the structures of monitoring to penal alternatives, within the Executive Branch and the Justice System, for the qualified implementation of the National Policy of Penal Alternatives, with a restorative approach and promotion of citizenship in the Criminal Justice System", confirm cited in the Notice no. 031, 2026.
Coordinated by Judge José Eustáquio Melo Júnior, the training will address the basic principles of minimal and extricating intervention. The content will be taught by two facilitators experts in the field: Amanda Freitas Souza, PhD student in Social Policy and collaborator at the National Coordination of Penal Alternatives, and Cléober Pires Silveira, master in Computational Modeling and national coordinator of Penal Alternatives.
With active methodologies, the programming involves not only expository-dialogical classes, but also real case studies, process flow simulation and analysis of the Situational Diagnosis of Penal Alternatives in the state of Tocantins. The 16-hour training was structured into two modules, addressing from the importance of precautionary measures in overcoming ECI (Unconstitutional State of Things) to the practical routine of reception, preparation and monitoring of penal alternatives.
More information can be found in the notice or with the Center for Training and Improvement of Magistrates (Nufam), by phone (63) 3142-2525 or by email at
