The prison authorities announced this Tuesday that they had dismantled the technological equipment installed in a physical space that operated as a broadcast signal retransmission center. Internet that allowed to have Wifi to all those deprived of liberty in the National Penitentiary of The victory and even community residents.
The dismantling of the equipment occurred during the search carried out on Monday at the site by troops from the Ministry of Defense in a military intervention requested of the Ministry of Defense by the magistrate Miriam German Brito, Attorney General of the Republic, which was led by Army Brigadier General Ángel Alfredo Camacho Ubiera.
In a press release, he explained that the service of Internet marketed via Wifi, illegally by detainees inside and outside of The victory it was even fed by a fiber optic line extended by its own means and taken from a point located in Sabana Perdida.
The prison authorities also occupied a server, a repeater of Wifi, 96 routers, 89 surveillance cameras 29 camera switches were installed, which were operated and controlled by an inmate, reported Roberto Hernández Basilio, head of the General Directorate of Penitentiary and Correctional Services (DGSPC), when presenting a detailed report of the operation to Judge Germán Brito.
Hernández Basilio and Hilda Patricia Lagombra Polanco, director of the Correction and Rehabilitation Centers, explained to the prosecutor that, in addition, 508 mobile phones, 107 chargers, 96 headphones, a laptop, two tablets, 9 DVD players, 35 playstations, 10 controls for different devices, 8 inverters and 173 speakers.
The operation of the military units, of different armed bodies of the Ministry of Defense, as well as of the National Directorate for Drug Control (DNCD), allowed the seizure of 312 sharp objects, both of industrial origin and of artisanal manufacture.
The authorities seized 496,003 cigarettes of a well-known brand (which, moreover, are smuggled into the country across the land border), two police uniforms, a military jacket, 17 watches, a landline telephone, 40 drones to cut out, a calculator and 720 fans that will be reinstalled in response to a climatic need.
The search seized 514 portions of a green vegetable, which is presumed to be marijuana, weighing approximately 2,875.2 grams, and 6 portions of a white powder, presumably cocaine, weighing approximately 234 grams.
The authorities seized 71 refrigerators of different sizes, most of them executive type, 11 microwaves, 35 blenders, 24 toasters, 7 electric stoves, 3 table ovens and 4 scales. Hernández Basilio explained that all the appliances will be delivered to the relatives of those deprived of liberty because their use on the premises implies privileges.
The victory It houses 7,582 prisoners, which represents a third of the total prison population in the country, which amounts to 27,146 people.
“We know that it is a facility with a high rate of overcrowding, but the prison authorities continue to make efforts to guarantee the integrity of all those deprived of liberty,” said Hernández Basilio, who thanked the effectiveness of the armed bodies that intervened in the operative.
“Interventions like the ones we did on Monday by order of the magistrate Miriam German Brito they only seek to improve the services of those deprived of liberty, so that they can serve the sentences imposed by the justice system in an environment that guarantees their integrity and brings peace of mind to all their families,” he added.
