Direito e saúde mental: percurso histórico com vistas à superação da exclusão DOI 10.5752/P.1678-9563.2011v17n1p16

The (un)preparation of the judiciary hospital for resocialization: violation of human rights

“…15 Another successful experience was the Comprehensive Attention Program for the Mad Offender of Goiás -"PAILI". Following the basic principles advocated by the work of the General Court of Justice of Minas Gerais, the "PAILI" gained the autonomy of physicians and psychosocial teams from the open service units and the clinics that had agreements with SUS, to guide the treatment of patients in compliance with MS. 25 The authors consider essential inter-institutional relations, that is, the interaction of HCT professionals with the judiciary and social assistance, in order to be negotiated the deinstitutionalization of many who are there, but who should receive treatment in community services.…”

“…23,24 In Brazil, the possibility of treating and caring for MS patients in an outpatient setting has been carried out through the work of professionals from the Care Program in accordance with the principles of the Brazilian Psychiatric Reform. 25 In 2000, the General Court of Justice of Minas Gerais, Brazil, implemented the pilot project, in which the defendant or convicted person suffering from mental illness, with ongoing lawsuits in the criminal courts of the district of Belo Horizonte, was accompanied to perform mediation between treatment and the legal process, until their social reinsertion was possible. The project, initially called "Project for Interdisciplinary Follow-up to the Judiciary Patient" -PIF-JP, acts with the criminal judges establishing the connection with the public health network, before and after the sentence, from the beginning of the criminal process until the its completion, that is, at all stages.…”