The spokeswoman of the National Police Regional of La VegaMaritamia Cruz Polanco, said Friday that seven were arrested Agents penitentiaries for his alleged link with the death of an inmate in the correction and rehabilitation center (CCR) THE PINTin La Vega.
The operation that culminated with the arrest of the Agents was carried out in the sector Doña Anain the Yaguate municipality, San Cristóbal province.
He explained that the research subdirection (DICRIM) of La Vega He moved to the Attorney General’s Office In Santo Domingo, and then they took the seven Agents involved in the death of the inmate and in the abuse of two others.
He said that the detainees, who worked at the CCR, are under orders of arrest in this case and will be prosecuted judicially in La Vega.
History of Abuse in El Pinito
Complaints about alleged abuses in the CCR of THE PINT They have been. According to the National Office of Public Defense, the cases of cruel and inhuman abuses, treatment against inmates in this center since 2018.
Among the most recent cases is the death by Wilber Nicolás Vargas, who died after suffering a trauma Craneoecephalic caused by blows of Agents Penitentiary In January 2024, another internal He died for poisoning.
In April 2022, the inmate Jorge Miguel Villafaña, aka “Bombo”, was killed within his celland in June of the same year the kidnapping of a Penitentiary agent. Another significant incident occurred in July 2018, when several internal of pavilion B-3 were brutally beaten, leaving one of them with injuries that required surgery.
They change from director
At the end of January, the General Directorate of Penitentiary and Correctional Services (DGSPC) made a intervention integral in the correction and rehabilitation center, at the request of the Appeal cut of the Judicial District of La Vegadue to the constant complaints of alleged abuses in said jail.
As part of this measure, the director of the Penitentiary systemRoberto Hernández Basilio, ordered the change of director of the jail and the total replacement of the members of the security team.
