Des’medida – Mental Health and Human Rights

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The Des’medida Program is an initiative of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul in partnership with Tribunal of Justice and with Health Departaments of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Anchored in the principles of human rights and supported by the Brazilian law of psychiatric reform, the program proposes to create alternatives ways to care in freedom of the prisoners with psychiatric issues arrested in hospice, seeking the deinstitutionalization of the security measure of hospitalization.