Combination Calculatorteam

DICTATOR collective habeas corpus CORRECTIVE the inhumane conditions in prisons in COLUMBUS

http://www.laestrella.com.pa/mensual/2009/10/17/contenido/159388.asp

STAR OCTOBER 17, 2009

Maribel Victor Atencio Jaén and appealed for urgent solutions.

NETWORK OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND JUSTICE AND PEACE

prisons sued by colonenses

Mulino

JOSEPH GOLD
joro@laestrella.com.pa

Authorities say they are solving the prison crisis

PANAMA. A lawsuit against the Interior and Justice Minister, Jose Raul Mulino, and the director of the Penitentiary System, Diomedes Kaa, the state of abandonment are the prisons of Columbus, presented yesterday the Justice and Peace Commission, together with the Human Rights Network and the Centre for Democratic Initiative, the Supreme Court of Justice. Maribel

Jaén, the Justice and Peace Commission, stated that a monitoring la cárcel Nueva Esperanza y en el Centro Femenino de Colón evidenció las condiciones infrahumanas para los más de mil privados de libertad, lo cual es una violación a los derechos humanos.

La agrupación presentó un hábeas corpus correctivo y selectivo, para que se corrija lo más pronto las omisiones en ambos centros penitenciarios, donde hay daños en la bomba de agua potable, aguas negras en las celdas, roedores, fibra de vidrio y la falta de camas.

MEDIDAS

Los demandantes solicitan a las autoridades judiciales que ordenen en un plazo perentorio subsanar las afectaciones antes mencionadas.

También solicitan se decreten medidas cautelares distintas preventive detention in the cases of inmates not convicted, until it is restored or restored water supply to the prison complex. GOVERNMENT RESPONDS



Meanwhile Mara Rivera, spokeswoman for the Ministry of Interior and Justice Minister said that the current deplorable inherited a prison system. "There was no water, overcrowding was terrible," he said. Within three months of government have made improvements in prison facilities. Besides this is catching up with the detainees who have served two thirds of their sentences.

"is being reviewed on a case by case in order to meet their release, "he said Rivera.

already approved everything that will be the construction of the city prison and on November 19 there will be an explanatory meeting for all interested in the work. The spokeswoman added that it will restructure all prisons and build a new Columbus. Diomedes Kaa, director of the prison system, while acknowledging the neglect are prisons of Columbus, said the lawsuit will not succeed because they are problems that do not come now. However, praised the initiative of organizations.

PART TWO FLOORS

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CRE POPULATION


10.450
approximately
Inmates are kept in overcrowded prisons around the country. 1.500



is the number of inmates in the province of Colon. This gender. 128