Nelsa Curbelo resigned from the Commission for Penitentiary Dialogue and Pacification of the Ecuadorian prison system. This was detailed in a statement released on April 21.
Curbelo, who is an expert in conflict management, appeared to date as president and spokesperson for the commission created by the President of the Republic, Guillermo Lasso, through executive decree 294, to strengthen the prison system.
In the letter, the commission explained that the commissioners in an extraordinary meeting elected Alfredo Narváez as the new spokesperson for the group.
In turn, the group ratified its commitment to continue working in order to achieve the objectives outlined in the executive decree.
The commission works from December 16 and on April 19 it gave details of its work in a report, with a cutoff date of March 11, 2022.
During these months, the members of the Commission have carried out various activities such as visits to prisons and interviews with persons deprived of their liberty, their relatives and prison guides, officials and ex-prisoners, to learn about the shortcomings in the system.
In the exhibition of the work report, this week, the members of the commission exposed acts of corruption in the prison system, as part of six points that they observed and that await solutions from the Government.
In that appointment, Curbelo explained that the report seeks to go beyond a diagnosis and be an action strategy to rescue human rights in prisons.
She pointed out that prisons are not rehabilitation centers, but “punishment centers” and “schools of criminal tactics.”
In dialogue with this newspaper, last December, Curbelo stressed that the main missions of the commission are focused on stopping the confrontations and deaths in prisons, humanizing prisons and making proposals to the Government on strategies that can be implemented in order to mitigate violence and support the rehabilitation of persons deprived of liberty (PPL).
In these months, several centers have continued to present incidents. Weeks ago, a score of inmates died in a massacre in the Turi prison, in Cuenca.
The commission still has three months of work left. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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