The disposal of facilities, rigor in income, creation of new modules, controlled surveillance through technology and new assigned personnel, will be the model applied in the renewal prison 1 to the Santa Elena prison, Petén to maintain control.
Petén will also move inmates considered high danger, the newly indicated authorities of the General Directorate of the Penitentiary System (DGSP) attached to the Ministry of the Interior.
Luis Juárez, new director of the DGSP explained to Free press That in a period not exceeding 60 days the tender for material purchases, equipment and award of the project for the removal of the prison in Petén, similar to the renewal model 1 (known before as the infiernito) and was rebuilt to be a maximum security prison.
The inmate population is 23 thousand 100 deprived of liberty and then the conversation sustained this Holy Thursday.
What initiatives brings in your management?
In Petén, the center will be rebuilt for an enclosure with the same renewal model 1 for a thousand deprived of liberty in the next six months.
The prison located in the municipality of Santa Elena will have bodily scanner and objects, television cameras and a monitoring center that will be in charge of penitentiary inspectors that have been formed for the fulfillment of the protocols.
The personnel who will be assigned to that jail are in the process of training at the School of Studies of the SP.
In what phase is the initiative?
The reconstruction of the project is contemplated to begin in a period of one to two months and the execution could last up to six months.
What does it respond to have control in that prison?
In that prison there is no population that belongs to gang groups, but deprived of freedom convicted of extortion, kidnappings and homicide; But there will be control of that center as well as renewal 1. There will also be a transfer of people of high criminological profile, who are now in other centers.
More controls
For other centers, what initiatives are there?
Similar controls in renewal 1 will begin to be implemented in the other prisons with the inclusion of body scanner, the identification of visits with a database to be able to exchange information with other public institutions.
In addition, there will be a new penitentiary guard and the General Inspectorate will carry out the supervision to avoid the entry of weapons, devices and telephones to the prisons.
“In Petén, the center will be rebuilt for an enclosure with the same renewal model 1 for a thousand deprived of liberty in the next six months”
Luis Juárez, SP Director
What is the experience obtained so far in protocols?
Technology will be implemented as carried out in renewal 1 that has worked quite well.
Then the acquisition processes are carried out, so they are expected to be completed during this fiscal year.
In eight months of the implementation of the model of the renewal prison 1 it has given positive results and on the requisitions that are made every 15 days or monthly, no illicit has been found.
While the body scanners have been functional and with the closed television circuit cameras, it allows control of who enter or leave.
What follow -up do people do visits to the centers?
About the people who visit information with the General Directorate of Civil Intelligence and the National Civil Police (PNC) of those who enter.
There are some people who have performed tests to determine if we comply with security controls, have been identified and made available to the PNC to renewal 1, so the protocol has worked.
What report do you have until this Holy Thursday?
At the moment no incidence is reported in the penitentiary system and the operational plan with the elite group in the prison complexes is active.
The entry and discharge of visits, as well as the parcels, so far, there are no news.