Volume 5, Issue 1, 2024, pp. 83-93

ABSTRACT: Considered a “civilizational advancement”, bail hearings were included in the Brazilian Criminal Procedure in 2019. This article describes how torture reports made by people caught committing crimes and thus arrested in the city of Cuiabá, Mato Grosso State’s capital, were answered by the Judiciary and the State’s investigative offices. For this research, we examined 641 bail hearings that took place from May to July 2021, as well as the reports’ legal outcomes.