The resolution was adopted by the Sectorial Security Cabinet, headed by the Minister of the Interior, Alexandra Vela, who analyzed the situation of the Social Rehabilitation System and “the measures against the end of the state of emergency, on December 28”. reported the note.
The Ecuadorian military, who are constitutionally prohibited from operating inside prisons, “will participate in the control of the possession and possession of firearms, ammunition and explosives, in accordance with the law.”
In this sense, patrols will be intensified on access roads to the country’s prisons and inside the centers “the reaction forces will be maintained for immediate action.”
Currently in Ecuador the Exception status to mobilize the Police and Armed Forces “in order to maintain order in prisons,” where more than 300 inmates have died in riots so far this year.
President Guillermo Lasso He decreed the exception for 60 days on September 29, after one of the worst prison massacres in Latin America, in which 119 prisoners of the Guayas 1 penitentiary, in the city of Guayaquil, died.
On November 29, he renewed it for another month.
In that same prison, 62 people died on November 14 when inmates from one pavilion entered another to kill members of a rival gang with firearms, explosives and machetes.
The massacre led to the replacement of the head of the joint command of the Armed Forces and the director of the agency in charge of prisons (SNAI).
According to the Government, “the criminal organizations that operate inside the detention centers have sophisticated weapons and have demonstrated high levels of violence and cruelty.”
Ecuador has 65 prisons with a capacity for about 30,000 inmates, but they are inhabited by 39,000 (30% overcrowded), of which 15,000 do not have a sentence.
The country has a deficit of 2,500 prison guides, and there are currently only 1,646 for the entire country.
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