How the new prison ended up in Lavras: Renato Corrêa recalls the suggestion from then-Deputy Eduardo Barbosa
According to the host, the deputy fought against expanding the Pará de Minas penitentiary and suggested a site in Lavras to the state government
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On the day the new Lavras prison was handed over, this Wednesday (11), host Renato Corrêa recalled on Revista da Cidade, at Rádio Cultura, how the facility ended up in the city.
According to him, then-Federal Deputy Eduardo Barbosa, who has since passed away and whose electoral base was in Pará de Minas, fought to keep a second unit from being built at the Pio Canedo Penitentiary in that city. In Lavras, the state had a plot of land reserved for a socio-educational facility for teenagers. The deputy suggested to Governor Romeu Zema that the prison be built there.
"They changed the project, and that's how this prison came to Lavras," said Renato, who noted that the station keeps a recording of the deputy's remarks from that time.
The project was paid for with compensation funds from Vale over the Brumadinho dam collapse, under a settlement agreement between the Minas Gerais government and the mining company.
Watch the excerpt from Revista da Cidade in this article's video.
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