In Brazil Escaping from Prison is Legal?

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roddieshoViP19 November 2024 02:45:40

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Cleaning out old texts, I ran across a Quora from several years ago that said one of the differences in Brazil and the USA is that escaping from ´prison is not a crime. Is this still true? (no, I don't expect to go to prison any time soon).

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abthree Brazil Expert

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abthreeBrazil Expert19 November 2024 12:22:15

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11/19/24 @roddiesho. According to my sources, escaping from prison has been a specific crime in Brazil since the 1950s; reports that it isn't or wasn't may be based on dim memories of the early Fourth ("Populist") Republic, (1946-1964) that apparently codified it as a separate crime during the immediate post-Vargas years.

The penalties are (1.) additional time on the original sentence, or (2.) imposing a more rigorous prison regime (e.g., semi-open replacing open, or enclosed replacing semi-open, etc.), or (3.) both.

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roddieshoViP19 November 2024 14:21:47

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@abthree Of course I was only curious because my wife would tell me she would "lock me up" if I did not eat my vegetables. Seriously this was a QUORA from 2017. I was clearing out my old texts and had just deleted the one for "the world is flat - true or false" when I saw this one.

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abthreeBrazil Expert19 November 2024 15:29:04

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11/19/24 @roddiesho. I don't think that escaping house arrest in the family compound on your spouse's orders is a crime, so you're in the clear. Still, you may want to give those veggies a try, just in case.