Overview
- The Senate plenary approved the measure in general by a unanimous 110–0 vote after commissions advanced an amended draft.
- The law sets a unified base sentence of 15 to 25 years nationwide to prevent reductions in states with tougher penalties.
- The framework adds 34 aggravating circumstances that can raise sentences to roughly 42 years, including cases involving violence, weapons, staged crashes, prison-based schemes, protection rackets, or attacks on candidates and migrants.
- Extortion will be prosecuted ex officio under new victim-protection mechanisms, including options for anonymous complaints and remote proceedings.
- The reform orders prisons to inhibit inmate communications within 180 days and punishes smuggling devices with 6 to 12 years, imposes 10 to 20 years plus dismissal for officials who fail to report or enable extortion, and bars early-release benefits for those convicted.