That is what the utmost safety jail that Gabriel Boric will construct in Chile will appear to be, just like the CECOT – Diario La Página – 2024-07-21 23:39:34

Within the face of the wave of violence that hit Better Santiago final lengthy weekend, which left 17 folks useless in varied acts of violence such because the bloodbath of 4 Chilean youngsters in Quilicura, early Monday morning, and the taking pictures that left 5 foreigners useless after an after-hours celebration, Tuesday afternoon in Lampa, President Gabriel Boric introduced, amongst different measures, the development of a brand new most safety jail during which the leaders of the organized gangs that terrorize the nation can be locked up.

Early Thursday morning, flanked by his staff, the president made the announcement at a press convention in La Moneda and defined that “will probably be positioned within the Metropolitan Area, will price roughly $90 billion (USD 95 million) and can improve the variety of locations in such a jail by 500.”

Within the afternoon, the interim Minister of Justice, Jaime Gajardo, detailed what the brand new penitentiary can be like and though he assured that its location has already been outlined, he declined to verify the precise place the place will probably be positioned, a minimum of for now.

“What we’ve indicated is that we’ll make the particular location identified as soon as we submit the undertaking that enables us to construct this jail extra rapidly,” he mentioned in dialog with CNN Chile.

“In a most safety jail, data could be very delicate,” he argued mysteriously.

The federal government authority defined that “throughout this authorities, the variety of most safety prisons all through the nation has doubled. We had 300, now we’ve 600 and we’re going to end with 800, plus the announcement we made at present the place we hope to construct a most safety jail for round 500 folks.”

Gajardo recalled that organized crime in Latin America has grown exactly underneath the auspices of prisons. “We as a rustic have to organize ourselves to proceed sustaining management of penitentiary institutions, and specifically of transnational organized crime,” he harassed.

So as to stop contact between inmates, “the utmost safety jail can have particular person, vandal-proof cells that can be monitored 24 hours a day, and meaning they may have a digicam inside. (There can be) a really strict jail regime, with few hours of yard time. Throughout these hours of yard time they won’t have contact with different inmates,” he added.

As for the visiting regime, “they’re very managed, they’re by means of visiting rooms. That’s, there is no such thing as a private contact exactly in order that no sort of alternate of data is generated.”

“They’re additionally very fashionable prisons that permit us to have cellphone blocking, an anti-drone system, which ultimately permits us to even have technologically monitored perimeter safety programs, and they’re prisons which have crucial perimeter safety, that’s, a strict regime and enough infrastructure,” he concluded.

Nevertheless, a word from Ex-Ante revealed unofficially that the brand new jail can be constructed within the commune of Santiago, in a army compound positioned on Pedro Montt Road, subsequent to the previous Penitentiary and the Santiago 1 Preventive Detention Middle, and really near the Justice Middle, a matter that makes quite a lot of sense since that’s the place the accused are charged.

The information didn’t go down nicely with Irací Hassler (PC), mayor of Santiago, who acknowledged on her account that “as mayor and resident, I’m completely against it. The pattern in Chile and the world is that prisons are constructed outdoors the city core.”

“My job as Mayor is to make sure the security, city improvement and high quality of lifetime of the residents of Santiago,” the mayor concluded.

Authorities spokesperson Camila Vallejo got here out to calm the difficulty and though she acknowledged that putting in a brand new jail in Santiago is “unpopular”, she assured in dialog with radio Cooperativa that “there have been measures that needed to be accelerated. It’s one thing that has been within the works for a 12 months, which the President requested to review, analyze and subsequently the foot was placed on the accelerator in mild of the regrettable occasions which have occurred within the Metropolitan Area in latest days.”

“We perceive that these choices should not simple (…) simply as extra prisons are demanded, nobody needs them in their very own commune and that’s the reason we perceive that it could be unpopular for the mayor of the commune the place they will be put in,” he concluded.

* Taken from Infobae