He overcrowding in prisons has encouraged the increase in violent events such as fights, riots and disorders in federal prisons, he considered Saskia Niño de Riveraco-founder of the civil organization Reinsert who works with populations deprived of their liberty.
This day El Sol de México published on its cover that in the last five years of the government of the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador At least 3,905 violent acts have been recorded in the 14 Federal Centers for Social Rehabilitation (Ceferesos)which the activist says is a sign that “the prisons are time bombs” because with overcrowding, the consumption of drugs and the levels of violence in the management of criminal It has become impossible.
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Due to the above, the activist indicated that the capacity of the prisons and build new ones, taking into account “prison is not the solution to absolutely everything,” however, he said that far from increasing their capacity, federal prisons have been closed and this has increased the populations in the state prisons.
“There is less and less budget for the criminal justice system given that it is not politically profitable, it is a problem that has been growing and also from what I have seen there is an increase in violence problems inside prisonsthere are more and more cases of violencethey are also more youths who are entering the classes and that causes the fights inside the prisons are much more frequent, as well as the issue of addictions,” he indicated.
He also urged to streamline the justice systemas he recalled that at least 47 percent of the people deprived of liberty in prisons have not received a sentence, that is, they are in preventive detention and increase the budget in the crime prevention and of the addictions.
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According to National Public Security Program 2022-2024of theSecretariat of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC) and of Decentralized Administrative Body for Prevention and Social Readaptation (OADPRS)the goal of the federal government in this area is to have a figure of 636 incidents in federal penitentiary centers by 2024, that is, 313 less than those registered in 2022 and 232 less than those reported by both institutions until June 30 of 2023, however, Saskia Niño de Rivera He considered that it will be difficult to reach the goal without the necessary resources.