The semi-open regime in the electronically monitored house arrest: panoptic or solution?
semi-open regime; human rights, Rondônia.
The execution of the semi-open regime in the electronically monitored house arrest in Rondônia is the object of the present research. Patent the need to study the implementation of this new model of execution for the semi-open, established as a problem: how has been the application and what are the impacts of the ME in the implementation of the semi-open regime in Rondônia? The specific objectives that were set out were: to investigate which and how many state districts have transformed the semi-open regime into an electronically supervised home and how many prisoners are in this condition, as well as to answer the question as to which of the two models: prisoners in a penal colony and, , can be considered more efficient. In order to do so, the number of serious faults attributed to the distressed of both models was stipulated as an efficiency criterion, in the period of twelve months. The hypotheses are based on the feasibility of replacing the place of fulfillment of the penalty of the semi-open regime to the domicile supervised electronically, starting from the assumption that, although for its necessary effectiveness a legislative change, is the model under study, as a measure that favors the humanization of punishment. The field survey, besides evaluating the administrative disciplinary procedures instituted in Porto Velho, also examined criminal executions and records of the Criminal Colony and Monitoring Units. The data collected indicated a better performance of the half-open house in the monitored area, as well as confirmed the lower cost of this novel execution model. Notwithstanding the above mentioned data, a more detailed study of the ME that implied even visits to the monitoring units, revealed the need for improvements and measures to be undertaken so that virtual prison is in fact an option to the problems faced in the prison system as well as it does not constitute a model as evil as the conventional one, summing up a "cruel and wise cage" denounced by Foucault.