More than 40 people will be released until Sunday, when the new mental health law goes into effect. This law puts an end to the kind of life imprisonment that many mentally ill people who have committed crimes have been sentenced to.
Manuel Coelho Barata was the unaccountable patient who served the longest time in prison. He joined Miguel Bombarda in 1962 and died in 2018 in Julio de Matos. He spent 58 years in a psychiatric ward.
Varumba, as he was called in the local press in Castelo Branco, went completely insane when he killed the most important man in the village of Lusa.
The court understood that he was not aware of his actions, but considered him dangerous and applied the security measure of confinement in the prison asylum.
Even when he was no longer a danger to society, society no longer wanted him back.
a The new mental health law Cases like that of Manuel Barata are no longer allowed. A type of life imprisonment issued at each review of the sentence.
Sunday comes into force the law and 46 It is indisputable that the prison system must be left.
At the Sobral Sid Hospital in Coimbra, a dispensary was set up To accommodate 10 of these patients.
Seven vacancies were filled, some of which were irrefutably transferred from Santa Cruz do Bispo Prison, a transitional clinical unit. After two months and when it is ready, the existing structures will be transferred to the community.
Notify the General Directorate of Prison Services 228 are unaccountable in prisons and another 194 live in psychiatric institutions.
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