Within a month of his inauguration, President Dilma Rousseff has dispensed through the Minister of Justice, José Eduardo Cardozo, Pedro Abramovay, Secretary National Drug Policy. In a controversial interview with the newspaper O Globo, had built a nest Abramovay public opinion to defend the prison to leave the "little drug dealers," ie, those who had been convicted of retail sale, generally to meet vice itself.To defend his thesis had two arguments: first, that Brazilian prisons are extremely overcrowded leading to many riots of prisoners often end in bloodshed, often between rival gangs within the prisons. With the departure of them from the dealers would be relieved. The second, for those small traders with no criminal record, it is easier to end up becoming the future on major drug traffickers if they stay in prison than at liberty.
His remarks did not like the new justice minister, José Eduardo Cardozo, the Workers' Party (PT) who once said that it was a personal opinion and not the Government Abramovay, who today announced that it leaves office. Neither liked too much to the public. Among the readers of the newspaper O Globo, 75% demonstrated against the release and only 25% in favor.
Recidivism of prisoners after serving their sentence is usually 80%. Cardozo is one of the ministers closest to the president Rousseff, as it was the first coordinator of his campaign and after the transition of government. For that reason and because it is the first casualty in the first weeks of his government, everything seems political analysts that the decision was taken by Rousseff whom everyone knows that shakes the hand when it comes to reprimand someone or without the services of one of the servants.
Precisely, the chairman, according to his campaign promise, is a priority not only to combat drugs in general, one of the largest generators of violence in the country, but particularly the crack, which now affects over than 600,000 young people in the country and the recovery of which a new challenge for the Ministry of Health.
Rousseff will have, anyway, to confront the dramatic situation of prisons with 330,000 inmates and a deficit of 70,000 jobs. Experts say Brazil would need to build a hundred new prisons. In the prisons, the vast majority are young and of these, 90% black or mestizo. Most come from poor families.
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