2023-05-19 16:56:28
Receive a salary while working on any resocialization project prison is a possibility that the country’s inmates would have with a legislative initiative that started its process in congress.
This is the bill for Productive Prisons. The initiative It was already approved in the first of the four debatess in Congress and aims to contribute to the resocialization, rehabilitation and social reinsertion of those deprived of liberty in Colombia.
“Productive prison programs must guarantee productive work spaces inside prisons”, says the article that was approved on May 17 by the First Commission of the Chamber.
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The legislative initiative proposes tax and administrative benefits for the public and private institutions that are linked. The prisoners may be in projects for the production of commercial, food, craft, agricultural and even musical goods.
“21% of people deprived of liberty in our country end up reoffending and overcrowding is already close to 23%, that is why the importance of this billso that those deprived of liberty achieve a true process of resocialization and rehabilitation that allows them to transform their lives and avoid the repetition of crimes,” explained Carlos Ardila, speaker of the initiative.
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Prisoners who participate in the processes of the Productive Prisons They will have the right to be remunerated with a decent and fair salaryaccording to the work for which they are hired.
“The entities or organizations responsible for income tax and complementary, may request a tax discount equivalent to the amount of expenses for salaries paid in favor of the population deprived of liberty within the framework of the development of the Program”, would be the benefit, for their part, for the companies that are linked.
The project has the positive concept of the Ministries of Education and Justice. This initiative is added to the prison humanization project established by the government.
The initiative for productive prisons is the author of congressmen Gustavo Adolfo Moreno Hurtado, Soledad Tamayo, Beatriz Lorena Ríos Cuellar, Karina Espinosa Oliver, Pedro Hernando Flórez Porras, Julio Elías Chagui Flórez, Griselda Lobo Silva and Ana María Castañeda Gómez.
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