The Penitentiary System (SP) is found in a crisis for the vacancy in the direction, which would be influencing a series of illicit that are being presented within prisons, experts in public security issues assured.
The most recent event occurred last Friday night, when four deprived of liberty were located at life at the Center for Pavoncito Preventive Detention, and that remained in prison for crimes of extortion, weapon carrying, possession for consumption, murder and illegal association.
So far the causes of death is unknown, but the possibility of alleged poisoning is not ruled out, which is known as a “silent death”, associated with the dispute of power within the prison.
On the other hand, the lack of controls in prisons would also be explaining several crimes that are happening abroad, associated with gang conflicts for the territory dispute to expand their criminal acts, the analyst agreed on security issues and former Deputy Minister of the Interior, Mario Mérida, and Eddy Morales former director of presidios.
“What this tells us is that having a director of the prison system there is no control in prisons”
Mario Mérida, an analyst on security issues
The main call to the authorities of the Ministry of the Interior (Mingob) is to make the appointment or designation of the person responsible for the SP to cover the vacancy as soon as possible, since the crisis can be potentialized due to the lack of controls in the penalties that reflects an institutional weakening, they warned.
On the other hand, it may be hindering the penitentiary intelligence work that supplies supplies to the General Directorate of Civil Intelligence (DIGICI) and other agencies that see criminal policy and investigation.
The instability in the direction of the SP emerged on May 13, when Luis José Juárez Bolaños resigned as general director of the SP who had been appointed on April 15, by replacing Sergio Vela who was relieved of the position to the “natural wear and tear of the position”, as the Mingob reported at the time.
Criminal activity is stimulated
Mérida is the idea that when the last director of the SP renounced and having no appointment for an institution of high importance, “it cannot be absent with someone who manages prisons.”
Then there is no address, illegal internal actions are stimulated within the same detainees, so “it is not uncommon to poison these people.”
“What this tells us is that since there is no director of the penitentiary system there is no control in prisons,” said Mérida, so he advised to appoint the person in charge as soon as possible to resume the administration of the system that has more than 23 thousand people arrested and who serve their sentences.
Mérida is of the logic that, since there is no designation of a director, in prisons any type of illicit can be moved and it is a risk when the position is being vacant.
“It must be a person who has the experience to exercise the controls of the deprived of liberty, and generate an effective rehabilitation program, as well as the control based on penitentiary intelligence to avoid any trifulca, mutiny”
Eddy Morales, former director of Presidios
In these terms Morales coincides, and as there are no controls in those deprived of liberty, “and it is evident that they have control and no director is going to risk if it does not have a team that has no experience, criminology studies, knowledge about penitentiary law and public management.”
About the profile of the new director, he must be a person who has the experience to exercise the controls of the deprived of liberty, and generate an effective rehabilitation program, as well as the control based on penitentiary intelligence to avoid any trifulca, mutiny, escapes or crimes in prisons.
He stressed that the Minister of the Interior, Francisco Jiménez, is a connoisseur about civil intelligence, administration and analysis of the criminal phenomenon, so he must pay attention to the prison issue.
“You have to make a much more effective selection of paintings to counteract the phenomenon of crime, not only that of the prison system, and the appointment of the Vice Ministry of Security is still vacant in the Ministry of the Interior,” Morales concluded.