As of Wednesday, March 1, files were reviewed and six people detained at the PNB headquarters in Boleíta were released. Another group was transferred to other detention centers, such as the Yare prison in Miranda state. Vice Admiral Celsa Bautista was appointed as Minister of Penitentiary Services on February 13, replacing Mirelys Contreras. After her appointment, several NGOs have denounced that the military does not have proven experience in managing the prison system
The Minister of Penitentiary Service, Vice Admiral Celsa Bautista Ontiveros, appeared this Friday, March 3, at the headquarters of the Bolivarian National Police (PNB) in Boleíta, east of Caracas, to review the files of the prisoners detained in different units of that body. of security.
The official’s visit was made within the framework of the reactivation of the commission of the judicial revolution, after the president Nicolás Maduro ordered that it be deepened “so that justice reaches the man on foot.”
The NGO A Window to Freedom confirmed that the commission was installed this Friday in that police cell, also known as the former Zone 7 of the extinct Metropolitan Police. However, since Wednesday, March 1, the review of files began at that headquarters.
That day six people were released. Unofficial sources informed the NGO that the authorities also manage transfers to penitentiary centers, such as the Yare prison in Miranda state, for the population that was sentenced.
Since Wednesday, some inmates detained at the PNB station in San Agustín del Sur, west of Caracas, have been transferred to Boleíta for psychosocial tests.
The mother of one of the prisoners, transferred this Friday to the Yare prison, assured that the Minister of Penitentiary Services approached the relatives of the prison population to find out more details about the cases of their relatives.
#Caracas | The Minister of Penitentiary Service reviews the files of inmates in the PNB of Boleíta – https://t.co/fTHFOxFu8X #UVLObserva #3 March #Video pic.twitter.com/lqPMarShaR
– Window to Freedom (@ventanalibertad) March 3, 2023
“It looks like a human woman. A minister had never taken us into account and she has. She got out of the unit she was in and wrote down the data on my son’s case, ”said the woman.
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