Orlando Carvalho spoke to journalists in Covilhã, on the sidelines of signing a protocol with the City Council aimed at recruiting prisoners to provide services to the municipality.
When questioned about cases of prisoners found dead in prisons, Orlando Carvalho recalled that there are intervention plans in place for such risks and intends to deepen them during this year.
“The measures will always involve the monitoring done for individuals in risk assessment, which is conducted by technical services when they consider there is a case of risk. Promote a much more active psychosocial intervention with these inmates,” the official said.
The strengthening of prevention measures involves more human resources and a swifter evaluation.
“It involves more resources, necessarily implies a quicker assessment, both from clinical services and surveillance, which are always the first contact with the individuals when they enter the establishment. Therefore, it necessarily implies more proximity, which we also hope to achieve with more human resources,” added Orlando Carvalho.
The Director-General of DGRSP stated that he does not have indicators of an increase in these cases compared to previous years.
Orlando Carvalho emphasized that suicide “is always a radical and extreme act, which requires the system to look at each of these events and, obviously, must be analyzed both from the individual standpoint and the conditions that led to these events and then in terms of the system and the level of intervention that will be necessary to promote.”
