Six new judges will be part of the three Judicial Units Specialized in Penitentiary Guarantees, created by the Judicial Council (CJ) in Machala (El Oro), Quito (Pichincha) and Santo Domingo de los Colorados (Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas). These are added to those already existing in the provinces of Guayas, Azuay, Cotopaxi and Manabí.
The new units are part of the Comprehensive Plan to Strengthen the Judicial Service in terms of Penitentiary Guarantees, approved by the Judiciary (CJ) last October. each of those judicial units It will have two judges, two secretaries, two judicial assistants and three administrative servers.
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The president of the CJ, Fausto Murillo, said that the creation of units specialized in prison guarantees has had a lot of momentum in recent months and has had good results. For example, Regarding the subject, he explained that there were around 10,000 administrative requests dammed and at the moment there are just over 6,000.
“A verification has been made from April to December 2021 and the dispatch (of cases) has risen absolutely. We set a minimum average per judge and that average was 76 monthly cases that I had to dispatch and it was possible to improve”, he pointed out.
Murillo stressed that the processing of these cases depends on the administrative file that is put together by the National Service for Comprehensive Attention to Adult Persons Deprived of Liberty already Juvenile Offenders (SNAI) and there would be some drawbacks. He believes that they could be overcome and speed up the dispatch of cases, once the SNAI finalizes the digital file project.
In last April, the full of the CJ welcomed the recommendation of the General Directorate of the Agency and approved the Report of Resolution Averages of the Matter of Penitentiary Guarantees, with which the number of 76 cases is established as the average monthly resolution for the specialized judges of Penitentiary Guarantees at the national level.
The judges of these dependencies, as determined by article 230 of the Organic Code of the Judicial Function, substantiate issues related to the rights and guarantees of persons deprived of liberty with a conviction, such as processes for the granting of semi-open and open regimes; and, resolutions on immediate release when they have served their sentence, among others.
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Likewise, they will know constitutional matters, in accordance with the provisions set forth in the Organic Law of Jurisdictional Guarantees and Constitutional Control.
Last October, the CJ ordered the immediate execution of the Comprehensive Plan, which contemplates the technical and financial elements necessary for the incorporation of personnel and implementation of infrastructure and equipment that expedites the dispatch of cases, through which persons deprived of liberty request to avail themselves of the prison benefits established by law.
the 5th of Last November, the plenary session of the CJ appointed eight permanent and temporary judges for the Specialized Judicial Units of Penitentiary Guarantees of the provinces of Guayas and Azuay. The designation was given at a time when the country was maintaining an emergency declaration for the prison system ordered by President Guillermo Lasso.
from the cj It has been indicated that actions continue to be implemented to face the serious situation of the National Social Rehabilitation System. and guarantee the guardianship of the rights of persons deprived of freedom, as established by the Constitution in its articles 35 and 51.
This regulation states that persons deprived of their liberty belong to priority attention groups and have the right to have their right to equal treatment guaranteed in the judicial system and non-discriminatory, granting them equal protection before the law and to be judged by independent and impartial courts and specialized judges. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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