"CRIMINAL ALTERNATIVES: AN ANALYSIS OF THE EXECUTION OF THE KIND OF PROVISION OF FREE SERVICES TO THE COMMUNITY IN MACAPÁ-AP".
Penal Alternatives. Provision of Free Service to the Community. Partner Institution.
The extremely high number of people incarcerated in Brazil is a constant focus of the Judiciary, which sees in Penal Alternatives, among other things, the possibility of reducing prison overcrowding. The Provision of Free Services to the Community (PSC) has been widely used and has advantageous characteristics in its execution, which occurs in partner entities of the justice system. The aim of this research was to evaluate whether the principles established for monitoring the execution of the PSC in partner institutions are being followed. To this end, it was necessary to explain the legislation on criminal alternatives and the current institutional policy for its execution in Brazil, as well as describe the methodology for implementing the provision of free services to the community in Macapá, State of Amapá. Thus, it was possible to clarify the importance of the partner entity for the possible achievement of the person's resocialization as an alternative through compliance with the PSC. The study is a bibliographic and documentary research, whose period, focused from 2017 to June 2023. The results obtained demonstrated the necessity of co-responsibility between the Sentence Execution and Alternative Measures Court, and the Partnership Network institutional has promoted the execution of the PSC within the definitions described in the current Management Manual for Penal Alternatives. However, it is important that the public facilities responsible for implementing, criminal alternatives can receive financial and human investments to improve this work. The PSC, being carried out in line with the precepts dictated by the criminal legal system in the partner Network, is capable of promoting the resocialization of the criminal agent, while at the same time helping to reduce the country's prison population.