The process of penal execution in the State of Tocantins has gained a powerful ally with the implementation, on the afternoon of Monday (May 2nd), by the Court of Justice of the State of Tocantins (TJTO), of the Unified Judicial Secretariat of the Courts of Criminal Enforcement of the State of Tocantins (SEUP). The ceremony took place in the auditorium of the Superior School of the Judges of the State of Tocantins (Esmat), with the presence of magistrates, public servers and authorities.
Created by the TJTO through the Resolution No. 16 of June 25th, 202, the SEUP has the objective of fulfilling the judicial determinations of the criminal execution proceedings in progress in all the courts of the State of Tocantins that deal, at first, with the fulfillment of sentences in the closed and semi-opened regimes. Initially, SEUP will handle the proceedings in the courts of the cities of Palmas, Porto Nacional and Paraíso of Tocantins. The reach to the other courts in the state will be gradual, following the evolution of the processes' hygienization. SEUP's head office is located in the Court of the city of Palmas.
Work Force
“The idea of installing the SEUP was to make better use of the work force, because when we talk about a unified compliance center we have an equalization of the servers' work force, a unification of the proceedings in the whole state in a single unit", said the assistant Judge of the Presidency of TJTO, judge Manuel de Faria Reis Neto, who represented the president of the Court of Justice, Judge João Rigo Guimarães, at the event. He highlighted the specialization of the servers that will work in the Secretariat.
For the Judge of the 4th Criminal Court and Criminal Executions of the County of the city of Palmas and SEUP coordinator, Allan Martins Ferreira, the implementation of the Secretariat is "a great challenge" and the intention is to end the inconsistencies that the SEEU [Electronic System of Unified Execution, created by CNJ in 2016, which centralizes/uniformizes the management of criminal execution processes throughout the country. In the State of Tocantins, the SEEU was implemented in 2019.
“It is a fantastic instrument, it has clear objectives, under the National Council of Justice. It unifies procedures, anticipates, recognizes rights, makes sure that we are monitored, and at the same time gives us a general notion of what the Brazilian prison system is. Which are the convicted prisoners we have, which are the convicted prisoners, but with resources, it gives us a more authentic picture, closer to reality", said Allan Martins, praising the TJTO's initiative in creating the SEUP, as a way to provide more celerity and hygienization to the processes.
Strengthen Partnerships
Another magistrate who praised the implementation of SEUP was the Judge coordinator of the Group for Monitoring and Supervision of the Prison System of the State of Tocantins (GMF), Jordan Jardim. "It is one more instrument to strengthen the partnerships with organs such as the OAB and the State Prosecution. It is also a moment to call on the servers involved to look at the SEEU in order to sanitize all the processes, and how our penitentiary units are doing. Congratulations on the initiative," he said. In this sense, the servers that will work in the SEUP are already trained to work in the system.
“The implementation of the execution in an adequate and properly sanitized manner will allow us to have the reality of the number of prisoners in each of the regimes. It will allow the defendant to progress in the exact time he reaches the right to this progression. So there will be a release of prisoners, allowing a follow-up of all the sentences that are being processed in the closed and semi-opened regime, and it will also give the magistrate a condition to properly analyze the execution", evaluated Claudia Chaves, criminal clerk.
Participation
Also participating in the SEUP implementation ceremony were the Auxiliary Judge of the General Internal Affairs of Justice (CGJUS), Rosa Maria Gazire Rossi, representing the Chief Judge, Etelvina Maria Sampaio Felipe; the Prosecutor of Justice and Chief of Staff of the Attorney General's Office, Abel Andrade Leal Júnior, representing the General Attorney, Luciano Casaroti; Priscilla Madruga, vice-president of OAB-TO, representing the president of the entity, Gedeon Pitaluga Júnior; Regina Trindade Lopes, coordinator of the program Making Justice/CNJ in the State of Tocantins; Denise de Sousa Costa, custody hearing consultant/CNJ in the State of Tocantins; and servers of the Judiciary.
