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Guatemala strengthens hospital security with shackles for high-risk prisoners

In order to guarantee security while providing medical care to prisoners in the various hospital centers of the country, this Saturday the Minister of the Interior, Francisco Jiménez, announced that prisoners will use shackles on their legs and feet hands

In his personal account on the social network “X”, the head of the Ministry of the Interior, Francisco Jimenezreporting on the step taken from now on during medical care for prisoners who attend consultations at various hospital centers in the country.

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Starting today, dangerous prisoners will be wearing hand and foot shackles to protect doctors, nurses, guards, judges, prosecutors and society as a whole. They are prisons, NOT holidays!, wrote Saturday morning, September 28, Minister of the Interior Jiménez.

Preventive safety measures using shackles

Likewise, with this measure, the authorities of the Ministry of the Interior try to provide more security to the medical staff who care for prisoners during their consultations in the country’s hospitals. , to those who are in charge of the administration of justice in the various courts of the country, to the guards of the Penitentiary System who make the movements and to the Guatemalan people.

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