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Local April 5, 2025 | 9:00 am

Prison system will begin to improve with new facilities

Four new prisons, which will open this year, are expected to begin improving the conditions of the 24,700 inmates, who are distributed in 41 prisons with a capacity to hold 15,000. Of these, 9,000 have no space, and 4,500 sleep on the floor. Roberto Santana, director of the National Office of Support for Penitentiary Reform (Onaprep), said that one priority is to remove 19 prisons from police a... Read more

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