2024-07-26 19:48:19
Minister Cordero announced that the new prison is an extension of Santiago 1, since starting from scratch takes “a significant amount of time.”
The Minister of Justice, Luis Cordero, delivered this afternoon the arguments of the authority to decide that The new high security prison that the Government will build will be built in the commune of Santiagodespite the refusal of Mayor Irací Hassler.
The Secretary of State indicated that this will be an extension of the Santiago 1 Penitentiary towards a plot of land that was acquired in 2011 and is intended for the Gendarmerie. Land belonging to the Army Research Institute in the same sector will also be used.
According to the arguments of the authority, the location of the future prison It was decided taking into account factors such as public safety, given its proximity to the Justice Centeras well as the need to manage the overcrowding present in the Santiago 1 prison.
“In Santiago 1 there is a very significant overpopulation that has led the Chilean treasury to pay more than $21 billion in overpricing. The recommendation, therefore, is expand said establishment and in that expansion develop the maximum security establishment “to which the President of the Republic referred last week,” said Minister Cordero.
He also said that an expansion was decided because “The development of new penitentiary centers is taking a very significant amount of time.“.
The reasons for building the new high-security prison there
Along these lines, he explained that “the reasons why the Executive has made the decision in that place, This is an area that has been consolidated as a judicial district and a penitentiary district.“.
“Not only was the Penitentiary built there in 1844, but in addition to that there is the development of the Santiago Justice Center in 2006, the first construction of the High Security Prison in 1994, and the construction of the Santiago 1 prison have allowed the development of a set of elements and considerations that, from the point of view of security and strategy for the development of this penitentiary center, are key“, he said.
Luis Cordero took the opportunity to also confirm the extension “in three different penal establishments, which will be communicated in due time and which are different from the commune of Santiago“.
The project to build the new high security prison It has a budget of 90 billion pesosand is expected to have capacity for 500 new inmates.