The latest Control Milestone report No. 9 (August 2025) of the Comptroller General of the Republic sent to the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE) exposes delays that reach 94 % in six structural items of the extension of the Penitentiary Establishment of the province of Abancay. This work was declared viable in 2018 and readjusted from S/ 82.6 million to S/ 129.2 million. As of October, the investment only shows a financial advance of 41.8 %, and several key areas remain without a single movement.
During the Comptroller’s inspection visit it was found that six items of the critical route – from excavation of ditches and shoes to the structural base floor – do not exceed 40 % progress, although they should be completed in July 2025. In several pavilions, kitchens and patios projected to house 650 internal ones, it has not even begun to work.
“Today we begin the transformation of the country’s prison system! After 10 years, a penitentiary establishment is being built, which shows that it is not promises, but concrete facts “said the president of the Republic, Dina Boluarte, in February of this year, during the placement of the first stone.
Abancay prison figures
- Excavation of ditches and shoes was 100 % scheduled as 07/31/25, but only advanced 38.4 %.
- Shoe wraps reached 31.2 % compared to 100 % scheduled.
- Containment wall shoe reported just 6.6 % progress.
- And the most alarming: nine blocks – including pavilions, kitchen and multipurpose courtyards – appear at 0 % execution despite being part of the critical route.
To delays are added quality defects. The Comptroller documented deviations of up to 7.5 cm in the verticality and horizontality of columns and slabs, attributable to “poorly aligned formwork, without appropriate hermeticity or bracing.” These breaches violate the Regulations of the State Contracting Law (art. 203) and the specifications of the technical file.
In a penitentiary system that records 110 % average overcrowding, every day counts. The rule provides penalties for unjustified delays, but the Saywite consortium – responsible for execution – has not presented a recovery plan or the INPE reports applied sanctions.
Debate for the Fronton
The braking in the expansion of the Abancay prison – whose completion is scheduled for July 2027 – aggravates the problem of overpopulation in prisons and exerts pressure on the Ministry of Justice to guarantee minimal conditions of reintegration. This is known in the middle of the promise of the Government of Dina Boluarte by rebuild the pedimentclosed in 1986 after the mutiny attempt to escape from terrorist criminals.
If deadlines are not fulfilled in Apurímac where a little more than 785 new cells will be built, how to trust that the pediment will not repeat the same pattern of delays and quality deviations?
