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President Guillermo Lasso stated the objective of “humanizing prisons”, a problem that seriously affected the country in 2021. Currently, the characteristics of the prisons show overcrowding, gang violence and lack of educational opportunities for proper rehabilitation. “We have to respect their dignity, their human rights and we have to work to give them a new chance at life,” explained the president. The measure would apply to misdemeanors.
Relaxing the serious prison crisis that exploded in Ecuador last year is one of the government’s goals, as explained by President Guillermo Lasso last Tuesday when he announced that he will promote a pardon for 5,000 prisoners with the intention of combating overcrowding.
Through the decree, it will seek, in turn, to take care of those minor inmates who suffer from the dangerous framework of the prison. Lasso stated that he wants to “protect many innocent citizens who committed minor crimes, mistakes in their lives.”
The project consists, after consulting with the Constitutional Court and the Prosecutor’s Office, in establishing the conditions for the pardon and then the judges are the ones who decide under “the established parameters.”
The objective that Lasso outlined, declared one of the priorities for his administration, is that the release of these 5,000 people deprived of their liberty can allow overcrowding to end by the end of the year and have a more favorable context for security and social rehabilitation. .
The current Penal Code indicates that those inmates who have served 60% of their sentence can access the right to liberty. However, it is not a condition that is applied often.
“The prisoners lost their freedom, but they have not lost their rights to work, health, education, sports, the possibility of having a new chance at life,” Lasso asserted. “We have to respect their dignity, their human rights,” he added.
A social strategy to “humanize” prisons
Last Monday, the Executive raised a first public policy project to transform the Social Rehabilitation System with a Human Rights perspective to form a comprehensive instruction in prisons and end the prison crisis.
Headed by the Secretary of State for Human Rights, Bernarda Ordoñez, the intention is to offer technical training, close employment agreements with companies and establish a program for drug detoxification.
For Lasso, the technological evolution of the penitentiary system and infrastructural development, something he called “humanizing the prison,” is “a moral debt that someone had to pay at some point.”
In the presentation of his plan, he described that 43% of the prison population is “in full productive capacity” since it ranges between 18 and 30 years. In addition, there are more than 21,000 prisoners who did not finish their studies.
This reaction comes after a year in which the problem in the system was severely deepened due to causes such as violent brawls between gangs for control of prisons, especially between drug cartels. In total 300 inmates died during the confrontations.
This emerging risk also revealed that the conditions of the inmates are deplorable due to the overcrowding of the establishments, the low budget, the precarious infrastructure and administrative deficiencies.
with EFE
First modification:
President Guillermo Lasso stated the objective of “humanizing prisons”, a problem that seriously affected the country in 2021. Currently, the characteristics of the prisons show overcrowding, gang violence and lack of educational opportunities for proper rehabilitation. “We have to respect their dignity, their human rights and we have to work to give them a new chance at life,” explained the president. The measure would apply to misdemeanors.
Relaxing the serious prison crisis that exploded in Ecuador last year is one of the government’s goals, as explained by President Guillermo Lasso last Tuesday when he announced that he will promote a pardon for 5,000 prisoners with the intention of combating overcrowding.
Through the decree, it will seek, in turn, to take care of those minor inmates who suffer from the dangerous framework of the prison. Lasso stated that he wants to “protect many innocent citizens who committed minor crimes, mistakes in their lives.”
The project consists, after consulting with the Constitutional Court and the Prosecutor’s Office, in establishing the conditions for the pardon and then the judges are the ones who decide under “the established parameters.”
The objective that Lasso outlined, declared one of the priorities for his administration, is that the release of these 5,000 people deprived of their liberty can allow overcrowding to end by the end of the year and have a more favorable context for security and social rehabilitation. .
The current Penal Code indicates that those inmates who have served 60% of their sentence can access the right to liberty. However, it is not a condition that is applied often.
“The prisoners lost their freedom, but they have not lost their rights to work, health, education, sports, the possibility of having a new chance at life,” Lasso asserted. “We have to respect their dignity, their human rights,” he added.
A social strategy to “humanize” prisons
Last Monday, the Executive raised a first public policy project to transform the Social Rehabilitation System with a Human Rights perspective to form a comprehensive instruction in prisons and end the prison crisis.
Headed by the Secretary of State for Human Rights, Bernarda Ordoñez, the intention is to offer technical training, close employment agreements with companies and establish a program for drug detoxification.
For Lasso, the technological evolution of the penitentiary system and infrastructural development, something he called “humanizing the prison,” is “a moral debt that someone had to pay at some point.”
In the presentation of his plan, he described that 43% of the prison population is “in full productive capacity” since it ranges between 18 and 30 years. In addition, there are more than 21,000 prisoners who did not finish their studies.
This reaction comes after a year in which the problem in the system was severely deepened due to causes such as violent brawls between gangs for control of prisons, especially between drug cartels. In total 300 inmates died during the confrontations.
This emerging risk also revealed that the conditions of the inmates are deplorable due to the overcrowding of the establishments, the low budget, the precarious infrastructure and administrative deficiencies.
with EFE
First modification:
President Guillermo Lasso stated the objective of “humanizing prisons”, a problem that seriously affected the country in 2021. Currently, the characteristics of the prisons show overcrowding, gang violence and lack of educational opportunities for proper rehabilitation. “We have to respect their dignity, their human rights and we have to work to give them a new chance at life,” explained the president. The measure would apply to misdemeanors.
Relaxing the serious prison crisis that exploded in Ecuador last year is one of the government’s goals, as explained by President Guillermo Lasso last Tuesday when he announced that he will promote a pardon for 5,000 prisoners with the intention of combating overcrowding.
Through the decree, it will seek, in turn, to take care of those minor inmates who suffer from the dangerous framework of the prison. Lasso stated that he wants to “protect many innocent citizens who committed minor crimes, mistakes in their lives.”
The project consists, after consulting with the Constitutional Court and the Prosecutor’s Office, in establishing the conditions for the pardon and then the judges are the ones who decide under “the established parameters.”
The objective that Lasso outlined, declared one of the priorities for his administration, is that the release of these 5,000 people deprived of their liberty can allow overcrowding to end by the end of the year and have a more favorable context for security and social rehabilitation. .
The current Penal Code indicates that those inmates who have served 60% of their sentence can access the right to liberty. However, it is not a condition that is applied often.
“The prisoners lost their freedom, but they have not lost their rights to work, health, education, sports, the possibility of having a new chance at life,” Lasso asserted. “We have to respect their dignity, their human rights,” he added.
A social strategy to “humanize” prisons
Last Monday, the Executive raised a first public policy project to transform the Social Rehabilitation System with a Human Rights perspective to form a comprehensive instruction in prisons and end the prison crisis.
Headed by the Secretary of State for Human Rights, Bernarda Ordoñez, the intention is to offer technical training, close employment agreements with companies and establish a program for drug detoxification.
For Lasso, the technological evolution of the penitentiary system and infrastructural development, something he called “humanizing the prison,” is “a moral debt that someone had to pay at some point.”
In the presentation of his plan, he described that 43% of the prison population is “in full productive capacity” since it ranges between 18 and 30 years. In addition, there are more than 21,000 prisoners who did not finish their studies.
This reaction comes after a year in which the problem in the system was severely deepened due to causes such as violent brawls between gangs for control of prisons, especially between drug cartels. In total 300 inmates died during the confrontations.
This emerging risk also revealed that the conditions of the inmates are deplorable due to the overcrowding of the establishments, the low budget, the precarious infrastructure and administrative deficiencies.
with EFE
First modification:
President Guillermo Lasso stated the objective of “humanizing prisons”, a problem that seriously affected the country in 2021. Currently, the characteristics of the prisons show overcrowding, gang violence and lack of educational opportunities for proper rehabilitation. “We have to respect their dignity, their human rights and we have to work to give them a new chance at life,” explained the president. The measure would apply to misdemeanors.
Relaxing the serious prison crisis that exploded in Ecuador last year is one of the government’s goals, as explained by President Guillermo Lasso last Tuesday when he announced that he will promote a pardon for 5,000 prisoners with the intention of combating overcrowding.
Through the decree, it will seek, in turn, to take care of those minor inmates who suffer from the dangerous framework of the prison. Lasso stated that he wants to “protect many innocent citizens who committed minor crimes, mistakes in their lives.”
The project consists, after consulting with the Constitutional Court and the Prosecutor’s Office, in establishing the conditions for the pardon and then the judges are the ones who decide under “the established parameters.”
The objective that Lasso outlined, declared one of the priorities for his administration, is that the release of these 5,000 people deprived of their liberty can allow overcrowding to end by the end of the year and have a more favorable context for security and social rehabilitation. .
The current Penal Code indicates that those inmates who have served 60% of their sentence can access the right to liberty. However, it is not a condition that is applied often.
“The prisoners lost their freedom, but they have not lost their rights to work, health, education, sports, the possibility of having a new chance at life,” Lasso asserted. “We have to respect their dignity, their human rights,” he added.
A social strategy to “humanize” prisons
Last Monday, the Executive raised a first public policy project to transform the Social Rehabilitation System with a Human Rights perspective to form a comprehensive instruction in prisons and end the prison crisis.
Headed by the Secretary of State for Human Rights, Bernarda Ordoñez, the intention is to offer technical training, close employment agreements with companies and establish a program for drug detoxification.
For Lasso, the technological evolution of the penitentiary system and infrastructural development, something he called “humanizing the prison,” is “a moral debt that someone had to pay at some point.”
In the presentation of his plan, he described that 43% of the prison population is “in full productive capacity” since it ranges between 18 and 30 years. In addition, there are more than 21,000 prisoners who did not finish their studies.
This reaction comes after a year in which the problem in the system was severely deepened due to causes such as violent brawls between gangs for control of prisons, especially between drug cartels. In total 300 inmates died during the confrontations.
This emerging risk also revealed that the conditions of the inmates are deplorable due to the overcrowding of the establishments, the low budget, the precarious infrastructure and administrative deficiencies.
with EFE