Audiências por videoconferência no complexo penal da cidade do Salvador-Ba: oportunidades e desafios no uso sistemático uso dessa tecnologia advinda da experiência durante a pandemia por Covid-19.

Abstract

This research presents the results of the analysis of prison data in the period from 2019 to 2021, which, respectively, was the period before the declaration of the state of pandemic by COVID19, followed by the period of full incidence, and finally the period of relaxation of social isolation measures. The objective of the investigation was to verify the impact on the number of hearings held in the penal complex in the city of Salvador-BA, using the videoconference system, as a way of promoting procedural speed, in the face of the problem of incarceration, with emphasis on people arrested on a provisional basis, analyzing the moment in-person hearings were suspended, as a way to prevent the spread of COVID-19. To contextualize this problem, the research listed the number of people arrested on the European continent, this being Spain and Portugal; on the North American continent, because the United States of America holds the largest prison population in the world; and in Brazil, with a spatial focus on the city of Salvador-BA, and thus evaluate the opportunities with the systematic use of videoconference transmission technology, as currently the use of this technology in hearings only occurs on an exceptional basis