In the rehabilitation centers of the provinces of Imbabura and El Oro, this Thursday, August 25, the schedule for the execution of the first census to be applied in 36 prisons in the country continues.
It began last Monday, August 22, and lasted two days, in Carchi and Loja.
According to General Pablo Ramírez, director of the National Service for Persons Deprived of Liberty and Adolescent Offenders (SNAI), the entity that administers the prison system, 1,503 people have already been registered.
“We were going to do it (the census) with the adolescent offenders, but due to a legal limitation, because we would need the authorization of the parents, it is not going to be done,” he said in a radio interview events, this Thursday.
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There are two teams of 80 people from the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC), Civil Registry, Criminalistics of the National Police and the SNAI, which take 30 minutes to take a census, since there are about 120 questions.
The INEC, he added, collects not only sociodemographic but legal information, while the Civil Registry verifies the identity of the person, living conditions and verifies the prison situation.
Ramírez pointed out that participation in the census is voluntary, but added that this project has been socialized with the inmates.
The head of the SNAI assured that they have reduced more than 20 percentage points of overcrowding, and the goal is to reach zero percent in the month of December.
There are currently 32,544 people deprived of liberty (PPL), 30,511 are men and 2,033 women.
Those who have been released, he said, are those who have served 40% or 60% of their sentence.
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Once the census is finished, the information will be sent, for example, to the Judicial Function so that cases can be expedited and, in what corresponds to the SNAI, to prepare internal plans in the rehabilitation axes, to the Ministry of Health for the delivery of medicines. .
“We are going to have, for example, information on people with chronic, catastrophic illnesses, which of them have -even- identity…”, he added.
This Friday, August 26, the census will continue in Pichincha and will last until August 31, when it will start in Azuay until September 4. It will conclude in Guayas, where the census will take place from October 17 to November 11.
The tabulation of the results will be done until next November 20. (YO)
Source: Eluniverso
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