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The first phase of this center, with a capacity for more than 2,400 inmates, will be delivered in August to decongest the country's penitentiary system.
Santo Domingo. – The Minister of Housing and Buildings (MIVED), Carlos Bonilla, and the director of the National Office of Support for Penitentiary Reform, Roberto Santana, carried out a supervisory visit to the Las Parras Correction and Rehabilitation Center, in the municipality of San Antonio de Guerra.
This work, carried out by MIVED and currently 65% complete, will be delivered in a first stage by Bonilla before August.
The first phase of this project contemplates housing more than 2,400 persons deprived of liberty, thus decongesting the penitentiary system of the Dominican Republic.
During the tour, Bonilla said that “this is a work that can be felt, it is quite advanced, we are working on the electrical parts, the sanitary parts, this will be ready to be delivered in August or before. We are finishing the physical parts, and the equipment, once finished, the staff will be receiving training to start receiving the 2,400 inmates gradually”.
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For his part, Roberto Santana stated that "production will take place here, there will be agriculture, with the raising of chickens and rabbits, we will establish school gardens that those deprived of liberty will work on. The idea is that those deprived of liberty help in the other quadrants in their completion process, we will do that with the first inmates we are going to receive in quadrant one. The inmates from La Victoria will come gradually, with a protocol established by the prison authorities".
During the tour, the works in the A1 housing quadrants were supervised, and A5, which includes the administrative blocks.
Quadrant A1 has educational classrooms, a building for a sewing workshop, a building for children's visits, a dividing fence and block enclosure, construction of an alternate access building for quadrants, perimeter fences in quadrants and special cells.
Also the construction of a cistern, a pump equipment room, equipment for the cistern and a connection for the cistern's power supply.
While quadrant A5 has 13 security towers, which are being completed, a gate camera and a grit chamber for the pumping station, a grit chamber for the wastewater treatment plant, a pumping electrification system, access roads, exterior electricity, general services and parking lots.
Currently, MIVED performs concrete floor polishing, aluminum carpentry, refurbishment of the watchtowers, general painting, waterproofing, refurbishment of the electrical, sanitary and potable water systems, sandblasting on the bars and refurbishment of the bathrooms.
Likewise, completion of the perimeter fence, placement of panels, construction of an alternate access building, construction of an educational classroom building, and completion of the main access road.
Already in the CCR Las Parras there are around 90 inmates from other correctional centers of the Medio Libre program, in which they perform community work, cleaning and conditioning of the physical structure.
Carlos Bonilla and Roberto Santana also met with community members from San Antonio de Guerra and other actors who are working on actions related to the correctional center.
Bonilla was accompanied by the honorary advisor to the Executive Branch on security policy and the penitentiary system, Roberto Santana; the general director of Penitentiary Services, Roberto Hernández Basilio; the governor of Santo Domingo, Lucrecia Santana; the mayor of San Antonio de Guerra, César Rojas García; the deputy Moisés Ortiz, and community members and authorities of Guerra.
