Patricia BullrichMinister of National Security, launched the program this Thursday Let’s get to work at the Ezeiza Penitentiary Complex. It will be implemented throughout the country by the Federal Penitentiary Service (SPF) with the goal that all prisoners work in prisons.
In this context, Bullrich declared that “this launch is a point very important on the path of transformations and restructuring of the SPF, and the relationship that people deprived of their liberty have with the debt they owe to society.” And he added: ”We know our Constitution well. Prisons have to be healthy and clean, not for punishment but for reintegration. And the National Penal Code says that People deprived of their liberty must be responsible for maintaining prison facilities and paying with their work for what they are detained today.. With this program we are doing neither more nor less than complying with our Penal Code.”
The program began with a pilot test in Complex 4 for women in Ezeiza. Immediately afterwards, the prison staff organized a scheme so that The inmates are in charge of the maintenance of the buildings. Currently, the interiors of the facilities are being finished painting to continue with the exterior, and This will be replicated throughout the country.. Besides, It includes the implementation of biometric systems for schedule control, as well as the classification of inmates will allow efficient assignment of tasks.
”If a judge tells us that we have to pay him for not working, we are going to go to the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, because That is an injustice to society. We want reintegration, but not based on the comfort of that person who outside preferred to steal instead of work and who here wants to earn a salary without working. That’s not going, it’s over”, assured the minister. ”It is entering the tumbera culture and we are not going to allow it; that is the culture of social destruction. From now on, all prisoners go to work” he added.
At the same time, he indicated: ”Our goal is to give back to society what was taken from it. We do not want to send a criminal back to the street, but we also do not want criminals, instead of working, like anyone who gets up every day and takes a train, a bus, rides a horse or walks to work anywhere in the country to collect a salary, here Get paid for doing nothing. We are not going to accept that injustice, nor are we going to accept that the salary of a person who does work in prisons is equal to or greater than that of the person who has done things well. “We distinguish good men and women from those who have broken their commitment to maintaining the law and a safe society.”
He also announced that he will present a project for a substantial change in the law of execution of the custodial sentence, among other substantive changes, “that regulates that work is work and we will not pay anyone who does not work a salary.” ”.
Bullrich assured that the ”injustice ends”
”Each of these prisons are accumulated taxes from citizens who are robbed, murdered, raped and who then have to put up money to pay for the prison that those inside do not fix. That injustice ends”, he stated. And he added: “Whoever wants to work will have a job, and whoever doesn’t want to will have to work anyway, because if not, they won’t get paid.”
”We are applying the philosophy of ending impunity and injustice that stealing is the same as not stealing, killing is not the same as not killing. “Clearly it doesn’t matter,” he concluded.
Along these lines, the Undersecretary of Penitentiary Affairs, Julian Curireviewed the last 10 months of management, commenting that they endured “620 habeas corpus and we all won.” Likewise, he pointed out that work is being done on a project to modify the organic law of the SPF, to make it “shorter, more concise, that reflects the needs of the institution.” Also, the specifications were modified so that the food purchasing tenders are broader, where any company can compete. “We are generating transparency mechanisms to overcome the problems that we all know exist in this issue of intramural life,” said the undersecretary.
Finally, the national director of the SPF, Fernando Martínezdeclared that the implementation of this program reaffirms the commitment of the security force to change “things that have been wrong for a long time.”
Source: Ambito
