Congressman Juan Jose Garcia Cuervas Presen Two Initiatives

Juan Jose Cuevas Garcia, deputy chairman of the Commission for Social Rehabilitation Congress of Jalisco, presented to the plenary of the LX Legislature two bills, the first states that will ask the Executive Branch of State financial resources that were intended to pay for federal crimes inmates in state prisons and have already moved or will soon be moved to federal prisons, are applied to improve the conditions of local prisons, the second initiative proposes that the name be changed Legislative Commission on the Social Rehabilitation of Social Reintegration Commission.

The legislator said in its preamble that there are more than 16,000 inmates, distributed in the 13 prisons in the state of Jalisco, which are exceeded in some capacity to over 100%, with a total deficit of more than 7000 spaces, ie, prison overcrowding is in the range of 79%, of which 206 are 3000 inmates who committed crimes under federal jurisdiction.

Cuevas Garcia said the actions that federal and state governments are doing to the depressurization of the prison population, internal transfers to federal CEFERESOS, noting that the November 22, Jalisco has a population of three thousand and five federal inmates, of which 427 are processed one thousand and one thousand 578 sentenced, knowing that this program does not bring down a whole facing prison overcrowding Jalisco, so it requires the implementation of more concrete actions.

The initiative is consistent with the increase in the inmate population and the lack of resources for creating spaces that maintain a state of latent security risk, health, among others, and prevent from a hotel worthy inmates as according to the United Nations Organization (UNO), an overcrowding rate of over 20% is considered cruel and inhuman treatment, what happens in the prisons of Jalisco, is nothing more than a humanitarian crisis, says the legislator Vallarta.

With this movement of inmates from state prisons to federal, will free resources that can be allocated to county jails (whatever name called) to try to provide more humane conditions for those who must be detained therein.

The second initiative presented by Juan Jose Cuevas together with Rep. Sanchez Victor Manuel Orozco, notes that before the changes made in Justice Reforms since 2008 forced to change the name of the Legislative Committee for the Social Rehabilitation of Reintegration Commission reforming Social Articles 73 and 98 of the Organic Law governing the legislature.

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