The system penitentiary Mexican

National The good success without real base The system penitentiary Mexican By: Carlos Damian November 8, 2012 A change is needed in the penitentiary system of the country Mexico. – When inaugurating an international conference about prisons that it is carried out in this capital, the Federal Ministry of Public Security, Genaro Garcia Luna (GGL), he boasted of the creation of a “new penitentiary model", supposedly characterized by the use of new technologies, for their employees' educational level, and for the privatization of services that would be, to say of the official, “stop to the impunity" and “reference at world level". The construction and modernization of jails in the country have been one of the activities more announced in the official speech, however in the government vision to have enlarged the federal prisons until a total of 21, all to test of fights, it escapes and mutinies", and to have confined in them to the criminals of high danger, it is indicative of a significant advance in the fight against him delinquency and in the consolidation of the right state, and this action, it would facilitate the social re-insert of the interns." The statements already mentioned, as well as the expression of GGL. "The prison represents the protection to the rights of the citizens so much of the free ones as of the prisoners", they must be contrasted with the panorama sketched at the end of the month of September by the president of the National Commission of Human Rights, CNDH (in Spanish), Raul Plascencia Villanueva (RPV) who it pointed out that the penitentiary system of the country, “crosses a crisis for the lack of political public in the matter". The torture in Mexico that being “common and systematic practice", in accordance with a long list of reports presented by 73 non government organizations (ONG, in Spanish) that integrate the National Net of Civil Organisms of human rights. These organizations have in their hands a document that contradicts the official speech that contradicts the previous official speech to the report that the government from Mexico will surrender before the Committee of the UN; against the torture. In their declarations the national ombudsman didn't include in its evaluation the federal prisons, these they only harbor to a small fraction of the prisoners in the country: near 40 thousand people, of the total of 250 thousand people that they form the total prison population. If they were certain the Ministry of national security’s words in the nation, more than 80 percent of the prisoners they survive under conditions of violence, corruption, drug traffic, sexual traffic, without health, accumulation and all luck of violations against their human rights. In their speech, he sold the pattern of Mexican jails as the dreamt panacea that many countries “should consider” to solve their penitentiary problems, but don't unite single mention of the recent flight of more than 130 prisoners of the prison of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, most accused criminals of federal crimes. The prison system was made to put control to the impunity The official also ignored in his message to the members of the ICPA the content of the current reports of the CNDH that they refer that of 2010 until final of September of that year had 14 flights at least in centers penitentiary Mexican, in which 521 interns escaped. Also in that period they registered 75 fights, with 352 deceased’s' balance. RPV has reported in recent way that in the Mexican prisons the extortions, mutinies and criminals' self-governments reign who they even end up possessing the key of the cell of the prisoners. The data more recent point of the National System of Public Security as of the INEGI they refer that in Mexico there are 238 thousand 269 prisoners, of which 50 thousand belong to the federal jurisdiction (one of four criminals that are in penal state they are accused of incurring in federal crimes), that is to say they made illicit such as smuggling people, crimes against the health, laundry of money or in their case organized delinquency. However in spite of these hard data that it has in their files the CNDH, GGL has its own diagnosis: "Many things have been achieved: the objective is to add this model to the state penitentiary systems (…) in the previous administration it was possible to increase seven times the capacity of the prisons of the federal system". The president of ICPA, Peter van der Sande (PVS), it points out that in the world the same problems of accumulation, under population and insecurity are presented inside the prisons, what is attributed in good measure to deficiency in the facilities. "More than 10 million people they have gone by the preventive prison in the world; at this time there is not a system of penal justice that doesn't go by the preventive prison (…) but today the jail is it considered like a more complex institution that requires bigger attention". Besides the saturation of spaces, PVS that another of the problems that generates is the possibility to force fundamental rights indicated, when leaving the terms of this confinement type. "It violates the right of having an expedite trial; the legislators should keep in mind that this also generates under population, since it is urgent and necessary to control the volume by means of the use of alternative", PVS says. If we include the impressive increment of those processed and sentenced by federal crimes during the last six years of federal administration (of 3 thousand 164 at 18 thousand 283 between 2006 and 2011, an increase of 500 percent) it could be considered a success in the fight against the delinquency if they were reflected in a decrease of the public insecurity. But this has extended, increased and multiplied in a firm way presently six years of federal administration. This would indicate us that the society has generated more prisoners of those than it imprisons that many of the prisoners are innocent, or both things. In any way, that carried out in the course of this administration as regards of prisons a success cannot be considered, neither in isolated form neither in the mark of the strategy of security. To present it this way doesn't show as the State winner on the citizen without foundation that has been the previous federal government's constant (La Jornada, politica, p.p. 4-5, 30 de October 30, 2012).