The UN Office for Human Rights This Friday he welcomed the reforms announced this week in Ecuador to try to put an end to the prison crisis in the country, where more than 300 people died last year in violent incidents recorded in its prisons.
The reforms announced Monday by President Guillermo Lassowhich include the implementation of a social rehabilitation system, were developed with the advice of the UN office itself, as well as with numerous sectors of Ecuadorian society, spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani highlighted.
“We hope that the new policy will be implemented to help change Ecuador’s prison system from a excessive reliance on punitive measures to a model that tries to prevent crime by complying with human rights standards,” he added.
“We welcome the changes and ask the Ecuadorian authorities to make an effort to put them into practice,” stressed Shamdasani, who reiterated the call of the office led by High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet to investigate deaths in custody.
The spokeswoman recalled that the prison population in Ecuador has tripled in the last 13 years.
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Ecuadorian authorities have attributed the violence in the prisons to disputes between drug cartels, although The crisis has also exposed the problems of overcrowding, lack of budget, poor infrastructure, corruption and deficiencies in the administration of justice., Inter alia. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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