Santo Domingo.- The Dominican College of Notaries (Codenot) will make available to the National Office for Support for Penitentiary Reform (ONPREP) to its members for the review and notarization of official documents linked to the penitentiary reform in the 27 provincial subsidiaries,
This collaboration will be honorably and seeks to strengthen the legality and transparency in the processes, according to an agreement was signed at the Codenot headquarters, by its president, Doctor Jhon Richard Paniagua Féliz, and the executive director of OnaPrep, Dr. Roberto Santana, who highlighted the importance of adding wills to guarantee a more human, inclusive and effective penitentiary system.
On the other hand, the ONPREP will integrate those in charge of the Codenot subsidiaries in the Penitentiary Reform Support Committees (CARP) in each locality, in addition to providing logistical support and promoting educational and social training programs aimed at the reintegration of persons deprived of liberty.
Paniagua Féliz stressed that “the Dominican notary has the duty to contribute to the strengthening of legal certainty and supporting, from ethics and transparency, the efforts of the State to achieve a more just society.”
While Santana stressed that “this agreement constitutes a firm step to ensure that penitentiary reform is not only a structural change, but also a process with legal, social and human basis, where each action has the institutional support that is required.”
The agreement, of indefinite validity, contemplates the creation of an inter -institutional monitoring commission, the presentation of periodic reports with evidence of the activities and the possibility of expanding its scope through adeles, thus consolidating a framework of permanent cooperation between both entities.
