Senate Crime CPI Exposes Prison Intelligence Gaps, Sets December Hearings With Governors

Overview

• Senappen intelligence chief Antônio Glautter told senators the country lacks consolidated metrics on issues such as faction membership in prisons, recidivism, and the effects of separating inmates by gang.
• Glautter said the 2025 federal penitentiary budget has roughly R$2 million for investments and about R$530 million for mandatory expenses, figures he described as insufficient for the system's complexity.
• CPI president Fabiano Contarato and relator Alessandro Vieira criticized the absence of standardized information and data-sharing across state prison systems, calling it a core weakness exploited by criminal groups.
• Senators unanimously approved inviting 22 governors and state security chiefs from 11 units of the federation to testify starting in the first week of December, with the order of hearings to be set by the committee leadership.
• Parallel to the hearings, the Chamber approved the latest version of the Antifacção bill after the relator removed language equating factions to terrorists, while prosecutor Lincoln Gakiya opposed concentrating Federal Police command over state forces and criticized the proposal's rush.