In the midst of the scandal over escape of prisoners from the Buenos Aires mayorsthe government of Jorge Macri accelerated this Wednesday and pre-awarded the last section of the work for $97,000 million to complete the construction of Marcos Paz prison complexwhere the detainees from the prison will be transferred Devotee.
Through a publication in the Official Gazette, the Ministry of Infrastructure awarded the Criba company the development of the 30% remaining from federal prison. The disbursement for the “Completion and completion of the VII Federal Penitentiary Complex – Ricardo Gutiérrez Locality, Marcos Paz District – Stage 4” will be $96,984,788,780.00.
Shortly after taking office, in May of this year, Macri realized the seriousness in the Buenos Aires mayors’ offices by declaring for 12 months “the building emergency, infrastructure and accommodation conditions in police stations and penal institutions “Temporary and transitional accommodation for people deprived of their liberty in the territory of CABA.”
At that time, the Buenos Aires administration resumed the tasks to complete the construction of the federal complex, located in the town of Ricardo Gutiérrez. Once finished, Some 1,800 detainees who are currently housed in the Villa Devoto prison will be transferred, which will close its doors.
The project to move the Devoto prison complex began in 2018 with the signing of a framework agreement between the National Ministry of Justice, the City Government and the State Property Administration Agencyratified by the Buenos Aires Legislature during the administration of Horacio Rodríguez Larreta. The transfer of the so-called “Devoted Complex” has as its end “favor the comprehensive urban development of its current location.”
For this, joint actions were established between City and Nation. And, within the framework of the overpopulation of the Buenos Aires mayors, the PRO decided to accelerate the tasks to complete the construction and alleviate the local prison system. The originally planned deadline for its completion is 2025.
Prisoner escape: they arrested a City Police and fired two officials
The pre-awarding of the work to Screen comes at a time when City is affected by multiple mayoral leakswhat became arrest of a Buenos Aires police for alleged “connivance” with the prisoners, in addition to the dismissal of two key officials: the advisor to the Ministry of Security, Sebastian Vela, and the director of Alcaidías of the Buenos Aires force, chief commissioner Adrian Ochoa.
The head of the Buenos Aires government blamed the overpopulation of detainees when speaking about the escapes, although he denied that the situation had worsened during his administration, but rather, as he said, it was worse under the Larreta administration. “There have been fewer escapes so far than in the last year of Horacio’s administration,” he said.
“I don’t know why that year there was much less advertising than this year, but we have a significant overpopulation,” he later warned in communication with Radio Miter.
Last Sunday two other prisoners escaped from the Center for Contraventists of Nueva Pompeyaafter heLast week, eleven other detainees escaped from another Police building. City in Barracas. The two subjects they fled of the place forcing a gate.
One of them, Dilson Eduardo Polanco Muñoz (35), He was arrested this Monday in Paraguay. Your companion on the run, Darlin Javier Polanco Aguero (32), is still a fugitive.
On November 23, another eleven prisoners fled from Alcaidía 4 Bis in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Barracks. The escape It came through the roofs of the police station. Two of the prisoners were arrested during the same day and a third was arrested 48 hours later, while the rest remain at large.
Last August, others four detainees escaped during the early morning of the annex of the Alcaidía 4 in Nueva Pompeyawhile in April, two prisoners filed bars and fled through the window of the warden of Neighborhood Police Station 12 C in Villa Urquiza.
Source: Ambito
