The Ministry of Justice (Minjus) has a portfolio of 40 projects for around S/4,888 million that are related to the improvement and expansion of Penitentiary establishments In the country, which, to get ahead, could help in the fight against citizen insecurity.
With information from the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) as of February 6, within these works is the “Installation of the Social Readaptation Service in the new ICA Penitentiary Establishment” that will require more than S/743 million.
In this region there is also the project for the improvement and expansion of the population of social rehabilitation of the population for more than S/280 million. In La Libertad, where insecurity is overflowing, there is an initiative with a similar name, but for the Trujillo Men’s prison establishment, in the Huanchaco district, which will require around S/211 million.
For Ancón I, in Lima, little more than S/13 million will also be allocated, in order to acquire a video surveillance system. In addition, there is a project called “Creation of the Social Readaptation Service in Ancón III” for more than S/564 million.
Concessions?
Today is the State that manages the prison system, would it be possible for him to do it private? Last year, congressmen from various banks presented projects for the privatization of prisons. Analysts consulted by Peru21 They answered this question.
According to the Deputy Minister of Economy, Carlos Casas, this is an option because the State has proven to be a bad administrator. “It can be done under the modality of a Private Public Association (App) because the state already showed that it is bad managing and for this we have a clear example that is Petroperú, “he added.
He also considered that, if this is carried out, it is necessary that at the same time teaching be done to explain why it is better that the private is responsible for these establishments and what will mean in terms of citizen security.
Meanwhile, the former Minister of Economy and Finance, Luis Miguel Castilla, said that there are companies that would be interested in obtaining the good pro, and indicated that although in the short term this can cost a little more, in the long term savings In security it is great.
It should be noted that in 2011 the Spanish companies Montealto XXI, Exeteco Internacional and Eulen obtained the tender of the new Huaral prison. However, in 2012, during the management of Ollanta Humala, the consortium was informed that the contract “for political causes” would not be signed.
For Castile, that was a mistake because “it would have been a good experience that has worked in other countries.”
For her part, the former president of the Confiep, María Isabel León, considered that app for prison establishments would help reduce the degree of corruption that is observed today in prisons.
“In Peru, we have 69 criminal establishments that the INPE manages. The president announced last year the creation of at least six prisons with an investment of US $ 1,630 million. Today there are more than 96,000 prisoners, but the capacity that exists in the establishments It is for no more than 41,000.
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