First prisoners released to decongest prisons due to health emergency



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Of this first group that will emerge, 40 are men and 4 are women, added the institution.

The estimated number of inmates who would already be waiting for the procedure to be completed in order to be sheltered with the measure would be about 600, although from the beginning it was calculated that in total there would be 4,000 beneficiaries.

Armband for prisoners with house arrest

Of the first group of 44, the Inpec detailed that there are “25 convictions under the age of five, 13 for 40% of the sentence served, 3 over the age of 60, 2 for catastrophic illnesses and one for a guilty crime”, according to Blu Radio .

The decree that authorizes and regulates the release, which is for 6 months, was signed on April 15, at a time when the coronavirus was beginning to spread through different prisons in the country.

Man is released from prison.

The document establishes not only the procedure that will have to be met for this to be possible, but also what type of prisoners could be received and what would be the impediments that would exclude them.

However, these obstacles made the list of those who could finally go out to serve home imprisonment scarce. As a result of this, some inmates of La Picota de Bogotá began a protest asking for general reductions in sentences or releases “without discrimination”.

The Picota

Initially, it was calculated that each process would take about 15 days, but the first releases took just over a week to take effect.



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