The Public Ministry of Defense reviews the accommodation conditions of the province’s police stations due to the judicial measure not to enter more inmates to the U11 and to prisons in the interior due to overcrowding and until the building improvements are completed.
“He The rebound effect of the correct decision to suspend new admissions to the province’s prison units is in the police stations. People those who are ordered into pretrial detention or those whose sentences have been finalized cannot be sent to prison units and the police stations they are overflowing”, revealed Juan Galarraga, member of the technical team of the Public Ministry of Defense, criminal execution.
It indicated that the measure of Judge Raquel Gass of suspend for 6 months the entry of people to the U11 (in Neuquén capital) above its operational capacitywas also replicated by Judge Alicia Rodríguez for units in the interior, such as Cutral Co (20 and 21), Zapala (31), Chos Malal (32) or Junin de los Andes «which are smaller and more limited prison units than U 11 , with a capacity of 233 detainees, where today there are 259,” he described.
The job of the public defense with the survey in the police stations of the capital and the province is underway, Galarraga described, while clarifying that it is a statistic of the technical team that is not the criminal execution team, which deals specifically with prisons.
Ehe official announcement by the provincial government of the opening of a wing to accommodate provincial inmates in the Senillosa prison (Federal Penitentiary Complex V) was carefully analyzed by the defense of criminal execution, although with clear approval of the measure. “In December we were touring Senillosa and the adjustments that must be made are several, we have no information that these tasks will be solved in a month,” said Galarraga.
The announcement from the provincial government was that The talks with the Ministry of Justice of the Nation were resumed and that in March the framework agreement will be signed for a coexistence in Senillosa, of 85 inmates of the provincial system in sector IV of the federal complex.
The relocation of the overcrowded provincial prison requires lighting works, enclosures and infrastructure in the federal prison; in addition to a commitment to build institutional housing for penitentiaries.
According to the Ministry of Defense, execution sector, also of agreements on the provincial penitentiary operation in the federal unit and the operational access of the educational area, among other aspects.
Galarraga recalled that the suspension of new admissions to the U11 and interior prisons occurred following the death of two inmates in a fire, that occurred in November in the isolation cells – with a minimum individual capacity – due to an alleged lack of space in the rest of the prison.
in the audience court in which the conditions in the U11 were discussed when the precautionary measure was issued, they requested the provincial government rrepairs that are underway in some pavilions (for which transfer of inmates to other already overcrowded wings is required), improvements in the fire fighting system that have not yet been implemented and sectors that were canceled due to electrical problems still under construction.
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