The President Dina Boluarte It has been proposed to rebuild for an approximate amount to the S/500 million the center of the El Frontón Island, in Callao, to house two thousand high dangerous criminals. However, during his government, Boluarte has failed to complete five penalty enable projects for S/760 million In Ica, Chincha, Arequipa, Cajamarca and Pucallpa, for the imprisonment of 14 thousand 355 presidiaries.
From the bloody unveiling of the mutiny of prisoners accused of terrorism, in 1986, which led to the destruction of the infrastructure of the premises, the pediment remained closed for thus 40 years. But the Minister of Justice, Juan Santiváñez, has convinced the head of state to build a new penitentiary establishment in the same place.
Santiváñez has overlooked that recently the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE), under the Ministry of Justice, ruled out the reconstruction of El Frontón for a series of technical reasons.
To this is added that the execution of five prisons projects, which could relieve serious overcrowding in all penalties in the national territory. The Boluarte Government during its management period has failed to conclude with the works, but intends to undertake the authorization of a new prison center in the field of what was the nefarious criminal the pediment.
According to the database of the ongoing public works (Infobras), the INPE is in charge of improving the infrastructure of the Chincha prison, the Arequipa Penitentiary Complex, the Pucallpa Penitentiary Center and that of Cajamarca.
For its part, the Ministry of Justice is responsible for the new Ica prison.
In the case of the Chincha prison, with an investment of S/ 55 million, awarded in 2018 to the company Athens Engineers was paralyzed that same year for breach of contract. The construction, which will house 3,493 inmates, does not advance anything that goes from the Boluarte government.
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Public works in the freezer
A similar situation is repeated in the Arequipa Penitentiary Complexwhich since 2018 remains abandoned by the project to expand the capacity for shelter and the construction of complementary areas. The work, awarded to the Misti Penitentiary Consortium-conformed by Pizzarotti & C. and CMO Group-, had an investment of S/ 191 million and was destined to benefit 2,465 inmates. The work was unfinished due to controversies.
The Rehabilitation and expansion of the Pucallpa Penitentiary Centerwork awarded in 2019 to the Ucayali Executing Consortium – integrated by the companies Desial and Weihai Construction Group Company Limited— was stagnant for discrepancies. S/126 million were allocated for the premises to argue to 2,808 inmates.
Meanwhile, the project for improvement and expansion of the Cajamarca prison, whose execution was delivered to the company Athens Engineers for S/3 million, in 2023, is paralyzed by social conflicts. In this penalty it was expected to receive 2,421 inmates.
And regarding Ica Criminalthe Ministry of Justice granted the Buna Pro in 2018 to the Consortium composed of Pizzarotti, CMO Group and Constructora MPM, for S/383 million. With a budget of S/3,168 million, Contractual problems motivated the freezing of works.
While four of the projects began in other governments -and one in his -, the management of Boluarte virtually left public works unfinished.
Instead unlock and complete the projects of the penalties of Ica, Chincha, Cajamarca, Arequipa and Pucallpa, to recruit up to 14,355 presidiaries, the President Boluarte and her Minister Santiváñez advanced a first investment for the financing of the new El Frontón prison for 2,000 inmates.
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A project without technical support
“It is a penalty that will cost 500 million soles and will have a shelter for 2,000 inmates. On the second day of management (as Minister of Justice) we already committed 174 million dollars for the construction of El Frontón,” Santiváñez told radioprograms.
The Minister of Justice said that technical studies supported the feasibility of rehabilitating the pediment. However, the former head of the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE), Javier Llaque Moya, who held the position between December 2022 and April 2025, denied it.
“The truth is that Technical reports made by INPE deny the possibility of building that prison. There is a report where it is technically answered that it is not viable. Surely they will do it, but under what characteristics? That is the big issue, ”said Llaque.
“It is said that the Fronton prison will build with the Fast-Track modality (fast route). That is, without a technical file. Hopefully they are successful. That has never happened in the history of our country. A penalty has never been built in the Fast-Track modality. The demands demanded to apply the model are not easy to meet. I am worried because I know the state, because I know the institution, I know the institution.
Even the projection of an investment of S/500 million to build a penalty in the pediment with a shelter capacity of 2,000 individuals, was questioned by the specialist.
“A penal of soles. I have also heard mentioning a cost of 700 million. These projections are inaccurate, ”concluded Javier Llaque.
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“It is throwing money without any justification”
- “(El Frontón) is unfeasible, because as INPE himself has stated in a report, in the area of El Isla de El Frontón, 108 hostel units could be built and not 2 thousand as the Executive says. In addition, it would imply a series of engineering works that would be absolutely unfeasible and too expensive,” said the former head of the INPE, César Cárdenas Lizarbe (2019-2020).
- “So, making an investment in these conditions for only 108 units of shelter, does not seem reasonable or feasible.
