2024-02-20 22:48:13
Jaime Gajardo highlighted that those who benefited were charged “with the most serious crimes established by our legal system.”
The Minister(s) of Justice, Jaime Gajardoreferred to the arguments presented by the judge Daniel Distance To grant benefits to inmates of the High Security Prison (CAS).
As the magistrate stated in a report to the Court of Appeals, was based on United Nations standards such as the Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners and the Nelson Mandela Ruleswhich recommend “maintaining social and emotional ties through periodic communications and regular visits.”
Given this, Minister (s) Gajardo, in conversation with CHV Noticias, pointed out that “those aspects that Judge Urrutia points out may be relevant to people who are accused or convicted of crimes that are commonfor crimes that eventually imply that these people have high, medium or low criminal commitment.”
But this is not the case, since They cannot be applied “to the most dangerous people we have within our country.”who are committing crimes that have a very important impact, but that have also put the security of our country at risk and have put the security of the neighboring country at risk.”
“We are not talking about people whose crimes are common crimes, but rather they are organized crimes, they are crimes that put the security of the country at risk and that is why a special regime is required to keep these people isolated from the rest of the population. criminal,” he added.
In that sense, Minister (s) Gajardo highlighted that the prisoners who benefited from the decision of Judge Daniel Urrutia are “people who are accused of the most serious crimes established by our legal system: kidnapping, extortion, mutilations, homicide, human trafficking, homicide of police officers, etc.“.
“That is, we also know that They are the leaders of criminal gangs through which the Public Ministry is carrying out these investigations, and these people are therefore in a maximum security prison,” he concluded.