Chile is at the doors of a new sentence from the Inter American Court of Human Rights, this time for the serious crisis in its penitentiary system, local media said Wednesday
Santiago de Chile, Oct 18 (Prensa Latina) Chile is at the doors of a new sentence from the Inter American Court of Human Rights, this time for the serious crisis in its penitentiary system, local media said Wednesday.
Once more, DiegoPortalesUniversity will present the issue before the regional organization during the 126th period of sessions started on Monday until October 27 in Washington. The critique focuses on the prison panorama in Chile, where over 40,000 detainees are dealing with an increasingly chaotic situation.
According to the investigation, during the 2004-2005 overcrowding, inadequate medical care, deaths, tortures, corruption of the military staff plus an insufficient control of the prisons persisted in the South American state.
Concerning the situation of jailed minors, the report points out that sexual abuse continues and rehabilitation programs are deficient.
Faced with overcrowding, the government implemented a Program for Prison Infrastructure that consists of the construction of 10 detention centers financed and designed by the private sector.
Chile has been rapped by international human rights bodies for granting amnesty to former repressors of the dictatorship, the situation of the Mapuche people and sexual discrimination cases, among others.
