Prisons Director says those involved in the Senasa case are isolated from other inmates: "If they take them there, they'll be pecked at."

Santo Domingo.– The general director of Penitentiary and Correctional Services (DGSPC), Roberto Santana Sánchez, revealed this Friday that Santiago Hazim and the others involved in the Senasa case are isolated from the rest of the prison population in the Las Parras prison, for security reasons.

“They are separated from the common population. The prisoners say that, if they are taken there, they are pecked at. Why? You know it. It is the situation that exists in the country regarding that issue,” the official expressed during an interview.

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Santana clarified that, although the accused are separated from the other inmates, "no cuentan con ningún tipo de privilegio", and that the measure responds solely to the need to "preservar sus vidas". Likewise, he explained that the Najayo penitentiary center, where they were initially sent to serve a coercive measure, does not meet the necessary conditions to keep them separate from the rest of the inmates. "If I did that, I was going to become the responsible one," he affirmed, while indicating that a communication was sent to Judge Rigoberto Sena to inform him about the situation and the decisions made. The director of the DGSPC added that in the penitentiary center of Las Parras the separation between preventive and convicted prisoners is also maintained, as part of the established security protocols.