Brazilian prosecutors want Lula to leave jail

Bloomberg

The same prosecutors who put former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva behind bars for corruption and money laundering are now willing to see him placed on house arrest.
Prosecutors of the so-called Carwash task force said the former president has shown “good behaviour” and is now entitled to a semi-open regime, which would allow him to
leave jail by day for work so long as he returns to prison every night.
Considering that few Brazilian prisons offer such a system, he could be given house arrest instead, according to analysts from XP Investimentos.
Lula has been serving a sentence of nearly nine years in the southern city of Curitiba since being arrested in April 2018. Under Brazilian law, a prisoner may qualify for a less restrictive prison regime after spending one-sixth of their sentence in prison. Yet the former president has yet to request such a move. Lula’s lawyer Cristiano Zanin Martins said he’ll talk with him on Monday to decide what to do. “The former president should have his freedom fully restored because he didn’t commit any crime,” Martins said.