Caminhos da desinternação: os potenciais impactos de implementação de equipe de avaliação e acompanhamento das medidas terapêuticas no hospital de custódia e tratamento da Bahia

Abstract

The present paper aims to analyze the potential impacts of the implementation of an Evaluation and Monitoring Team of the Custodial Sentences Applicable to the Person with Mental Suffering in Conflict with the Law (EMT) in Salvador, Bahia. To this end, the bibliography research was based on the analysis of legal texts, ordinances, normative guidelines for public agencies, data provided by the Hospital de Custódia e Tratamento from Salvador (HCT). The article argues, through a bibliographic review, the fundamentals of the custodial sentence, the HCT-BA’s patients profile and the policies reorientation in order to support the health of people with mental disorders in conflict with the Law, so that, it delves into the structuring of the (EMT) and its potential impacts in the Bahian context, especially in the municipality of Salvador, where the only State Institution responsible for the implementation of custodial sentences and holder of the expertise to verify non-accountability is located. The results obtained revealed that the EMT implementation at HCT-BA could provide effectiveness of the paradigms of the anti-insane asylum struggle for both the hospitalized and the ones in social reintegration, through similar projects’ actions adopted in other Brazilian States.