Agentes de muralha

English translation: surveillance agents

12:19 Mar 28, 2016
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc. / Pesquisas sociais
Portuguese term or phrase: Agentes de muralha
Para o trabalho foram entrevistados trinta agentes de muralha do sistema penitenciário brasileiro
milena mignossi ferreira
Brazil
Local time: 11:37
English translation:surveillance agents
Explanation:
:) Não achei o termo muralha no contexto (agentes penitenciários), usei "vigilância", um termo mais genérico
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Clauwolf
Local time: 11:37
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2 +4Perimeter guards
Kim Edwards-Buarque
2surveillance agents
Clauwolf
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agentes de muralha
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surveillance agents


Explanation:
:) Não achei o termo muralha no contexto (agentes penitenciários), usei "vigilância", um termo mais genérico

Clauwolf
Local time: 11:37
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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25 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +4
Perimeter guards


Explanation:
As a guess, "muralha" (wall) could refer the those security agents /guards who are placed on the perimeter of the prison?

Kim Edwards-Buarque
Spain
Local time: 14:37
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Douglas Bissell: Sounds good to me
1 hr

agree  Muriel Vasconcellos
17 hrs

agree  SilkePlaum: Perimeter wall guards
1 day 14 hrs

agree  Matheus Chaud
1 day 23 hrs
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Reference: agentes de muralha

Reference information:
No Estado de São Paulo, o gerenciamento e o serviço de custódia de pessoas recolhidas aos estabelecimentos carcerários – quer sejam presos em situação processual indefinida, pendentes de julgamento definitivo, recolhidos a titulo de prisão cautelar (prisão-processo), quer sejam presos apenados por decisão judicial condenatória transitada em julgado (prisão-pena) – são confiados à Secretaria de Administração Penitenciária (SAP) e os servidores públicos vinculados a esta pasta, responsáveis pela segurança, movimentação, vigilância e disciplina dos presos nas diversas unidades do estado bandeirante são chamados agentes de segurança penitenciária (ASP) e agentes de escolta e vigilância penitenciária (AEVP), estes últimos mais conhecidos por ******** agentes de muralha. ********
http://www.jurisway.org.br/v2/dhall.asp?id_dh=9311

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