The releases of common prisoners continue to increase in Nicaragua. The dictatorship of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo revealed that on November 2, All Souls’ Day in Nicaragua, a new group of prisoners will be released under the family coexistence regime.
Rosario Murillo, vice dictator of Nicaragua, in her usual midday speech, detailed that the new group released will be 1,500 people; 1,391 men and 109 women. With this group, so far in 2024, the regime has a total of 7,600 releases.
The Ortega-Murillo dictatorship has used the celebrations of Mother’s Day (1,500) as an excuse for the release of common prisoners; the 45th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution (1,500); and the National Holidays last September (1,600).
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Last April 19, the date on which the sixth anniversary of the beginning of the civic rebellion in Nicaragua was commemorated, the government also ordered the release of 1,500 common prisoners. Murillo, at that time, stated that they were doing it in commemoration of “the defense of peace,” although in reality they tried to overshadow the anniversary that reminds them that they repressed the people of Nicaragua, who in April 2018 took to the streets to demand freedom. justice and democracy.
8 out of every 100 released would commit crimes again
The criminal recidivism rate of these people released by the regime, according to data revealed at the beginning of this month by Senior Commissioner Julio Orozco, director of the National Penitentiary System (SPN), is 8 percent, that is, 8 out of every 100 of these released prisoners commit crimes again and return to the country’s prisons.
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Taking into account the data revealed by Chief Commissioner Orozco and the number of releases of common prisoners carried out by the regime of these 1,500 released, at least 120 released prisoners would return to the streets to commit crimes and, in the event that the authorities manage to arrest them again, they would return. to prison in the different prisons of Nicaragua.
A political analyst, consulted by Article 66 after the viralization of videos related to robberies In Nicaragua, he said that the massive releases of common prisoners, which the Ortega regime takes out of prisons without them serving their respective sentences for common crimes they committed, are also part of the factors that increase the levels of insecurity, highlighting that ” “Many of them go out to reoffend, causing distrust and fear among people.”
