Sérgio Moro: The federal maximum-security prisons have stood the acid test.
Sérgio Moro: There have been, historically, unfortunately, two escapes that occurred during this Government, but these are exceptions in an otherwise successful record, in which those taken to federal prisons are isolated, kept in individual cells for most of the time - 22 hours - with only two hours outside the cell for recreation.
Is it a harsh prison regime? Yes, but it is a prison regime necessary for those bosses of organized crime.
Sérgio Moro: When I assumed the Ministry of Justice in 2019, one of our first acts was to transfer the PCC leadership out of São Paulo, because they were there in state prisons, waiting for an opportunity to escape and still controlling the criminal underworld.
Sérgio Moro: They were all transferred - more than two dozen, in a true wartime operation - to federal prisons, and, when they set foot in the federal prisons, we also changed the visitation regime to prevent them from having contact with the outside world that was not monitored by federal penitentiary police officers.