Global Courant 2023-05-23 17:25:54
SANTA BARBARA, HONDURAS.
A National Police contingent The Ilama prison, known as “El Pozo” in Santa Bárbara, northwestern Honduras, intervened on Tuesday morning.
The police officers entered the modules directly at 6:00 am, where members of the Barrio 18 gang and Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) in search of weapons with which they have staged intense shootings.
The teams have been distributed to reach each of the modules and search each of the cells.
“The Well” is the first penal center intervened after Dr. Julissa Villanueva, president of the penal scepter controller commission, will announce strong measures.
He intervention plan It contemplates ten points among which disarmament within penal centers stands out.
INTERVENTION IN PRISONS
On April 9, the president of Honduras, Xiomara Castro, announced a “harsh” intervention in the country’s penal centers after simultaneous confrontations between gang members registered in four prisons and which left several dead and injured.
“I am going to put a strong hand and order in the prisons, until transforming them into Penal Rehabilitation Centers, not into crime and torture schools like what I have inherited,” said the Honduran president at the time.
Castro appointed the Vice Minister of Security, Julissa Villanueva, to lead the intervention plan for Honduran prisons after the shootings that occurred in early April.
CRISIS IN PRISONS
In the Honduran prisons there is overcrowding and overcrowding, there is a lack of adequate and safe physical facilities to house the inmates, and the hygiene and sanitation conditions are deplorable.
He Honduras prison system Made up of some 26 prisons, it houses 19,658 prisoners, when its maximum capacity is 8,000, and less than half of the inmates have been sentenced, according to official figures.
A huge police contingent moved to El Pozo to intervene in the “maximum” security prison.
