Bail is a substitute measure for preventive detention. Through the Guarantee, property rights are affected and/or restricted, in order to guarantee the normal and functional development of the criminal process The Constitutional Sentence 0760/2012...

Since February this year, when the pilot custody hearing project in São Paulo began, criminal alternatives have been identified as an important strategy to combat overcrowding in prisons. Arguing that alternatives would be provided...

What to expect from jail? This is a question that many people ask themselves: after all, what to expect from prison? I’m sure a lot of people will respond at once that the purpose...

Prison custody for the purpose of extradition, or simply extradition, was finally regulated by the recent Law No. 12,798 / 2013, which significantly altered the Alien Statute (Law No. 6,815 / 1980), ending or...

Bonds between the debtor and the surety The case law consistently holds that the disappearance of the bonds between the debtor and the surety does not entail the release of the bond. Yet changing...

There are many draft laws underway to increase the penalties for ill-treatment of animals so that acts of cruelty against them can be prosecuted and punished within the framework of the common justice, given...