“The person who denounces knows how to proceed”, was the sparing but forceful response that the attorney gave yesterday Miriam German Brito When asked about the complaint made by Robert Santana that the person in charge of security at the La Victoria penitentiary receives RD$7 million per week for charges he makes to inmates who deal drugs; owners of grocery stores that operate there, and relatives of others to make it easier for them to bring things in, and that the Public Ministry knows it.
“I have nothing to say. The person who made the complaint will know how to proceed” replied Germán Brito without pausing or mentioning the name of the honorary adviser to the Executive Branch on prison policy.
She was approached by journalists on her way out of a reception that she gave to employees of the MP on the occasion of Mother’s Day.
Complaint
Explaining the situation, Santana, who is one of the leading Dominican experts on the prison system and honorary adviser to President Luis Abinader in that area, said that every week the person in charge of security at that prison collect the seven million pesos that are delivered by imprisoned drug traffickers, business owners inside the prison, people who go on visits and others linked to illicit activities.
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Santana criticized the deterioration of the prison system, pointing out that even the new model is already experience degradation.
Likewise, it was asked why the Nueva Victoria pavilions, whose construction is completed, have not been put into operation in order to strengthen the New Model, to which the Attorney General replied: “the overcrowding of the La Victoria National Penitentiary will begin to resolved when the State finishes readjusting the complex located in Las Parras, Guerra.
Germán Brito clarified that “we all have to be very clear, and the Executive Branch even raised it with us through its adviser on the matter, that these works, which were inaugurated without being completed, had been overvalued and, in addition, they had to be duly readjusted.”
