the 10th of September in Collateral Damage address the issue of the prison crisis in the country, corruption and mass escapes. He suggested the construction of a maximum security prison on Socorro Island, part of the Revillagigedo Archipelago, nearly 1000 km off the coast of Nayarit. This to move the prisoners there to drug related crimes.
Just days later, last Tuesday September 21, Genaro Garcia Luna appeared before the legislative branch. The head of the Ministry of Public Security (SSP) said it is managing the construction of 12 maximum security prisons in the country. Although the location of these prisons still not defined, highlighted in his presentation "Building the super maximum security module on Socorro Island. "However, he gave no details about it or specify a time frame for its construction, although the PowerPoint presentation shown to specifically mention that prison in the Pacific.
For its part, the Secretary of the Navy told La Jornada on 24 September "the agency had no knowledge of the subject."
is not clear the degree of progress that the project may have. It is nonetheless significant the Department of the Navy, which play a fundamental role in the security of that prison, is not aware. O Socorro Island project is just beginning or plane, the Navy was omitted in their planning.
fragment of the hearing of Genaro García Luna which shows the graph refers to criminal Socorro Island
level "super maximum security."
materialize in the criminal case on Socorro Island federal prison would be a security classified as "super maximum" which is a level above what is currently handled in the 4 maximum security prisons that already exist. At this level, the first penalty is in operation will be to Papantla, which is constructed as a complex federal prison in Veracruz and that includes a module with that level of security able to accommodate 250 inmates. The maximum capacity of the prison inmates will be up to 2.200.
The level of "super-maximum security" is intended to detain people there to the degree of danger for intellectual or material have the ability to continue committing crimes from prison, threatening to jail own domestic context and also by their operational capacity, may jeopardize external security.
The cost of the prison complex in Papantla is projected between 900 and 1300 million pesos.
Therefore, there would have to start to estimate the cost of the prison of "super-maximum security" on Socorro Island, by the very construction of the prison but also by the construction of additional infrastructure, expansion of the base Naval Navy stationed there, and the transfer of materials required for construction. It is without doubt a huge company but with many benefits.
However, the construction of the 12 criminal look to be ready for March 2012 and includes a financiamieto based on a "service delivery model involving the corporate sector." On June 1, Genaro Garcia Luna said the bidding process for construction of the 12 criminal was "almost ready."
A Federation unable to keep its inmates
This expansion of prison infrastructure would allow the government to be able to keep to all the inmates of federal jurisdiction, among whom are those held by organized crime such as drug crimes. But it will allow the federation to hold prisoners under common requiring special measures of confinement.
And currently, according to data contained in the Fourth Report on the Work of the SSP, the government only has 7 federal prisons with a capacity of 9.494 inmates. This type of prisons offer greater security compared to state or municipal criminal. However, the federal government has no capacity to take care of all inmates who are within its competence and distributes state and local prisons.
The backlog problem is of such dimension prison, now in the prisons of the 3 levels of government, there is 45.446 offenders detained under federal jurisdiction. So the criminal federal, with a capacity of 9.494 places are only able to accommodate 20% of inmates who are his. And to make matters even worse, in federal criminal jurisdiction is 2.068 common criminals, to be dangerous, have become more criminal surveillance.
Another problem is overpopulation. According to the report of the SSP, in the 429 criminal 3 orders of government in the country fit internal 176.911, but currently there is a population of 222.297. This is an overpopulation of 25.7%.
why this project has been launched to build 12 criminal to absorb all federal inmates in higher security facilities and prevent leakage massive federal offenders with links to drug cartels, which have been taking place in the country.
criminal benefits Socorro Island
This is what Collateral Damage published in the Sept. 10 about the benefits of building a prison at Isla Socorro for drug-related offenders.
is necessary to strengthen state institutions for the war on drugs is effective. And the prison system is essential. Ojala
President Felipe Calderón will be encouraged to take an extreme step and build on the theme a maximum security prison overseas. In some Pacific island hundreds of miles around the coast to detain offenders accused of organized crime and drug trafficking.
This is how Marias Islands, an archipelago in the Pacific to just over 100 miles off the coast of Nayarit, which since 1905 works as a prison colony in Mexico.
It was originally designed to send there the most dangerous criminals, but then became an open prison for inmates of low hazard, who are allowed to serve their sentences living with their families. It
required to return the original concept of the Islas Marias, but to a much stricter, more remote islands, such as the Revillagigedo Archipelago, Mexico office, which is nearly 1000 km off the coast of Colima.
The archipelago's largest island is Isla Socorro ( 18 ° 48'0 "N 110 ° 59'0" W / 18.8, -110.98333 ). with an area of \u200b\u200b132 square kilometers of fresh water springs. There is already a naval base of the Navy of Mexico settled there with a capacity for 235 people. There is also a heliport and a runway extension of 1.24 km enough to take off in a Hercules plane with 70 tons of cargo.
Build a penalty in the Socorro Island and infrastructure requires much more work than that, but the salaries would be extensive.
For example, not having cell phone signal to prevent offenders to maintain contact with criminal organizations, much less call made national news as Osiel Cardenas.
For example, not having cell phone signal to prevent offenders to maintain contact with criminal organizations, much less call made national news as Osiel Cardenas.
also prevents those same offenders are released from their cartels to return to nourish the cells of assassins and operators and, much less go out and kill people at night as did the defendants in Gomez Palacio.
The waters surrounding the island are, now patrolled by the Navy that has been a tough and effective fighters in the war on drugs, who also would be responsible for reviewing the goods moved to the prison and prevent weapons from entering, luxury or satellite phones.
criminal Enable a great capacity for drug-related offenders, there or on any other island off the Mexican mainland, would be a great step forward towards real and effective punishment of offenders of organized crime.
As a businessman recently told Tamaulipas:
"In extreme measures, extreme solutions, and Mexico at this time is not for warmth."
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