Amnesty International Uruguay, through its networks, published information about deaths in Uruguayan prisons for the year 2021. It maintained that said year was configured as the one that registered the most deaths in Uruguayan prisons since 2017, when it began to carry out the registration.
After the end of 2021, this showed as data that the people who lost their lives while in custody was 86 individuals. It practically doubled that of 2020. It states that according to “these latest records, there is a 79% increase in deaths in prisons compared to 2020.” Although the “population deprived of liberty increased in 2021, the growth of deaths exceeds the growth levels of people imprisoned in the system,” he maintained.
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During the last days of December 2021, the general director of the Secretariat of the Ministry of the Interior, Luis Calabria, reported that the portfolio will begin construction of a penitentiary in Artigas and Tacuarembó. The chief informed that the company GF Construcciones will begin to build the jail of Tacuarembo. Construction started in February 2022.
Calabria maintained that it will be the first prison to be built by this government and that it is part of the Prison Dignity Plan 2020-2024. This unit will be located on a property of the Police Village, which is located on Route 31 in the La Matutina area. This enclosure will have capacity for 150 people deprived of liberty. He added on that occasion that the Ministry of the Interior opened a public tender for the presentation of offers to build a prison in Artigas.
