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So far this year, 1,300 common prisoners have been released in Nicaragua, according to the Ministry of the Interior. And between 2016 and 2021, more than 26,000 convicts received the benefit of the family coexistence regime, according to the vice president and first lady, Rosario Murillo.
The release processes are headed by the Minister of the Interior, María Amelia Coronel, as happened on July 28 of this year in the Jorge Navarro Penitentiary System.
“Remember that this opportunity is given only once and you start from scratch, so you are the only ones responsible for taking care of your freedom,” said Coronel.
In the opinion of experts in judicial matters, the authorities do not provide enough information on the mechanisms to free convicts.
“It is worrying because it is done outside the legal mechanisms established by our legislation and therefore the parameters used are unknown,” he told the voice of americaYader Morazán, specialist in judicial matters.
Carlos Guadamuz, a lawyer for the Nicaraguan Never Again Human Rights Collective, denounces that “in Nicaragua, the Judiciary is currently completely politicized, the Judiciary corresponds to partisan political interests.”
For former deputy and analyst Eliseo Núñez, the release of the almost 30,000 common inmates could be the reason for the increase in crime that was reflected in a recent survey by the CID Gallup firm, which indicates that 45% of Nicaraguans claimed to have been victims of Stole.
“You have a time bomb that, what you are doing is exploding into crime and that is where you are seeing that it has multiplied and that there are already assaults in the streets,” Nuñez stressed.
The prestigious firm placed Nicaragua as the second country in Latin America with the most robberies and assaults, only surpassed by Guatemala.
