More than 1,500 people arrested at their homes in chains – Portugal

At present, there is virtually no overcrowding at the national level. But this poses problems in electronic surveillance. We still have difficulties, both in terms of staff and cars, that we are trying to solve. That's how the general director of Reinsertion and Prisons (DGRSP), Celso Manata, revealed on Monday that the prison population Portugal "has declined" steadily, which is mainly due encouragement of electronic surveillance, which "increases exponentially."

According to the most recent data, since the beginning of this year 1059 applications for the execution of sentences and measures monitored by electronic monitoring. In the same period of 2017, only 650 applications were filed in this regard. This is the result of an amendment to the Criminal Code introduced in November that allows some inmates

Currently, 1504 people are detained in this situation, an increase of 50.24% over the same period of 20 years. 17. Of this total, 669 cases (45%) relate to situations of domestic violence.

"We had a serious problem in the prisons and now we have a complicated problem in the electronic monitoring which, when I arrived, did not reach 1000 and now it is over 1500", said Celso Manata, lamenting the "chronic deficits" in the Directorate General of Rehabilitation and Prison Services. "For many years, we started the year with a budget lower than the one we spent the previous year and it is a problem we have to face, if we have less than 39, money, things can not work well. "

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