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Just one of the 1,800 prisoners benefited from the pardon, he asked to return to prison, almost 30 days later, amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The hunger and the cold were stronger than the fear of catching inside the prison.
The above, given the existence of housing problems, lack of work or a support network.
The Gendarmerie specified to BioBioChile.cl that this is an inmate pardoned in Antofagasta, who is one of the 21 prisoners who has returned to the country’s prisons, after the law that benefited them with their exits came into effect.
Of the 21 who took the measure to get out of prison, due to the high risk of contagion of the coronavirus, 16 have committed new crimes, concentrating most of these in the Metropolitan Area, with nine recurrences.
As for the remaining five cases, these correspond to “Revocation of pardon” and “Voluntary re-entry”, where the case of Antofagasta is framed.
Police and criminal relationship
The president of the Association of Gendarmes of Chile, Pablo Jaque, described the low number of “returnees” to prison facilities in the country as positive and explained in what context the voluntary return of an inmate occurs.
“Those are situations that the community does not understand, because public opinion believes that the gendarme-prison relationship occurs in a context of day-to-day violence. But that is not so, many times the officials are psychologists, social workers, teachers. ” Jaque said.
He added that “One talks to the inmates daily and can realize their needs. Many have long sentences and have no family ties and consider that their family is in prison and the good relationship there is internally, makes them see us that way. ”
1%
On the balance, the national director of the Gendarmerie, Christian Alveal, indicated that “the new Commutative Pardon Law benefited more than 1,800 people, all at-risk populations. Only 1% of those pardoned returned behind bars in less than a month. “
Alveal added that “currently, we have intensified daily controls, since we are not going to allow them to use this measure, which was given for sanitary reasons, to commit new crimes or break their house arrest, putting public safety at risk.”
Meanwhile, the leader of the gendarmes, Pablo Jaque, assured that given the positive evaluation of the measure so far, it could be evaluated to extend it in the event that the pandemic worsens in prison facilities.
“The evaluation there is very positive, so far. The recidivism is less, so if the coronavirus situation becomes complicated in prisons, you could think of expanding the measure ”Jaque anticipated.
The law 21,228 of the General Commutative Pardon was enacted in mid-April and its objective was to decongest the country’s penal facilities in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Also, on Sunday the revocation of the pardon and the determination of income due to unjustified breach of a beneficiary who broke the total house arrest in Coyhaique were known.
Now the law allows the inmate to request a return. Before, they committed a crime and waited for the police to go to jail and come back behind bars with “their wagon” (friends), food, shelter and shelter, especially during the winter. They had everything but freedom.
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