Police and Armed Forces will continue outside the prisons.
The Government will not renew the Exception status for the jails of the country that concludes this Tuesday, December 28.
On the morning of this Monday, December 27, 2021, the Vice Minister of the Interior, Max Campos, confirmed that there will be no renewal of the state of emergency, and that the National Police and the Armed forces They will be kept in prisons according to their powers.
“This moment, at the end of the state of exception, and after the meeting that was held in the Security Cabinet, the Armed Forces and the National Police will continue, without the need for a state of exception, supporting the National Service for Comprehensive Attention to Persons Deprived of Liberty and Teen Offenders (SNAI), ”Campos said on radio Sonorama.
In accordance with current regulations, the only uniformed security agents who can be inside prisons are prison guides.
Police and military remain outside the centers and intervene, in that order, if there is mutiny or acts of violence.
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After the last massacre in the Litoral Penitentiary, which left 62 prisoners murdered, President Guillermo Lasso indicated that he will renew the states of exception as many times as necessary.
The state of exception that ends on Tuesday 28 was the first renewal of the declared September 29th for “serious internal commotion in all the deprivation of liberty centers that make up the national social rehabilitation system, without any exception (…), based on the circumstances that have seriously affected the rights of persons deprived of liberty, of the personnel of the prison security corps and of members of the National Police, especially their rights to personal integrity and life ”.
Of the latest murders, last week, President Lasso pointed out that those responsible cannot be identified because there was no “prison intelligence” system and that they are already creating it together with the SNAI.
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Lasso also reported that the Government must hire 2,600 prison guides, because there are only 1,400 and 4,000 are needed.
Another action that the Government has taken to stop violence in prisons is the creation of a commission for dialogue and pacification of the prison system from the country.
This commission is autonomous and must present inputs to redirect social rehabilitation in six months. (I)
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