The ex-president Pedro Castillo He was transferred to the Barbadillo prison on Friday, December 16 to serve the sentence of pretrial detention for 18 monthswhich was issued by the Judiciary.
Castillo Terrones was placed at the disposal of the staff of the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE) with the aim of confining him in one of the prisons of the Barbadillo penitentiary center, in the Directorate of Special Operations (Diroes), according to Latina.
Where is the Bardadillo prison?
Pedro Castillo will remain detained at the facilities of the Directorate of Special Operations (diroes), Where is he Barbadillo prisonlocated in the district of Ate.
This penitentiary center, better known as the presidential jail, is located near the Javier Prado Prolongation and the Central Highway. In addition, Terrones Castle He is being held in the same penitentiary center as former Head of State Alberto Fujimori, who has a 25-year sentence for the Barrios Altos and La Cantuta massacres.
The Barbadillo prison is located in Ate, not far from the Real Plaza de Puruchuco. Photo: Google Maps
Why is Barbadillo called the presidential jail?
The Barbadillo prison and the name of the presidential prison has gained strength again after the admission of Pedro Castillo Terrones to your facilities.
It is valid to remember that this name became known when in 2019 José Luis Pérez Guadalupe, then Minister of the Interior, declared that the building of Barbadillo had been exclusively for former president Alberto Fujimori.
The former president is serving his sentence in the Barbadillo prison, located in the Ate district. Photo: composition Fabrizio Oviedo / La República
“It is a penalty that was made especially for Alberto Fujimori. There has always been a cliché, nurses 24 hours a day. Being next to the Dinoes there was access to an ambulance, ”explained the former official for Canal N.
It is worth mentioning that the former dictator has been held there from 2007 to the present, after being sentenced for being the mediate perpetrator of homicide qualified with treachery, serious injuries and aggravated kidnapping in the massacres of Barrios Altos, La Cantuta and the kidnappings of the journalist Gustavo Gorriti and businessman Samuel Dyer Ampudia.
Pedro Castillo was transferred to Diroes on December 7. Photo: John Reyes/The Republic
How long would Pedro Castillo be detained?
According to the preliminary order of preventive prison dictated by Judge Juan Carlos Checkley, the former president Pedro Castillo He will be taken to a common prison (currently in Barbadillo) where he will remain for 18 months, which are counted from December 7 of the current year to June 6, 2024. Likewise, this may be reviewed within a period of time. not less than six months.
Updated by Shirley Reyes.
