For now, the military and police are still in the prison complex.
Heavy machinery carries out cleaning work inside and outside the Guayaquil prison complex, this Wednesday the 17th.
This morning, several trucks entered the prison as part of the intervention work that began on the afternoon of Tuesday 16.
The main body in charge of the prison system (SNAI), Colonel Fausto Cobo, agreed on a backhoe last Wednesday afternoon during the start of work inside the prison complex.
For now, heavy machinery is used to clean up debris, brush and debris in several areas of the prison complex, where last Friday and Saturday there was a new episode of riots with at least 62 inmates killed.
On Wednesday’s visit, Colonel Cobo indicated that one of the intervened areas is the area behind the prison complex, towards the banks of the Daule River. Likewise, cleaning is done in posts that were used as surveillance points by inmates.
In addition, Cobo assured that the so-called death row was controlled, a space that is located between the twelve pavilions of the jail.
On the morning of this Wednesday, in the first filter of entry to the penitentiary center, the presence of the military was maintained for the review of the people who access through the main door. In addition, soldiers were located in the so-called death row and the internal perimeter of the pavilions.
Outside, relatives of inmates also continued to seek information to expedite release procedures for those who have served their sentence or 60% of the sentence to receive the benefit of the semi-open regime.
Meanwhile, relatives continue with procedures to complete the identification of corpses in the Laboratory of Forensic and Criminal Sciences. 43 of the 62 recognized corpses have been delivered and another 5 also in that condition have yet to be removed by relatives. A group of fourteen bodies is pending completion of the reconnaissance due to their condition. (I)
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