Monsignor Jesús Castro requests an urgent intervention of the prison, where the inmates keep knives. Deputy Hamlet Melo says there is corruption and they steal money from prisoners
The overcrowding, the lack of food and the accumulation of knives in the hands of the inmates of the carcel of the municipality of Higueyis once again the concern of religious and legislators in the province of La Altagracia.
They denounce the number of inmates who have power of weapons
The bishop of the diocese of the The Altagraciamonsignorr Jesus Castro Marsdenounced that in Anamuya Correction and Rehabilitation Centerin Higueyurgently requires an intervention, given the insufficiency in the supply of food, cleaning material, personal hygiene products, as well as dispossessing the bladed weapons held by the inmates.
“They are human beings. Enough already!exclaimed the priest. In support of the pronouncements of Bishop Castro Marte, the lawyer, declared that he was the technical defense of a defendant who was awaiting his fate in this prison and that what he told him about the prison of anamuya it horrified him.
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Anamuya Staff Corruption
The deputy of the People’s Force (FP)Hamlet Melo, denounced that in the prison of anamuya there is corruption and disorder, based on the fact that the money that inmates should receive “A group of employees stole it.”
He argued that what the bishop says is true. “You have to do an internal cleanup. The inmates had to make a riot the other days, because employees had a business with the money that the relatives sent to the inmates and the money was lost”, he added.
He said that another problem is that in prison they close the business that sells food to inmates ahead of schedule. He warns that the inmates also live in subhuman conditions, since the norms of the new model are not met. He indicated that the bishop and senator Virgil Cedano they met with prison staff to discuss the situation, and carried out a medical operation. He called the Directorate of Pressure to intervene in the Anamuya penitentiary.
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Melo stressed that at his request, the Ombudsman, Pablo Ulloaand the Directorate of Pressures, carried out an operation together with the adviser of the Executive power in penitentiary matters, Roberto Santana, for which they expect a response and a solution in the coming days.
The Anamuya Correction Center it was built for 1,000 inmates, and currently houses 200 more than its capacity.
In the most recent brawl between the prisoners who demanded respect for their rights, there were several injured, recalls the deputy, He reiterates that this is part of the corruption in the administration of the prison, which he describes as a “a cancer in Anamuya”.
Chaos in the preventive prison of Higüey
Aracena’s complaint
Deputy Hamlet Melo corroborates the statements of the deputy Heriberto Aracena, of also corruption in the preventive penal, on the part of control prisoners, in complicity authorities. Melo requests presented a project for the construction of another enclosure.
