The general director of Penitentiary Services and Corrections, Roberto Hernandez Basiliodescribed as an “individual appreciation” the statement that in the dominican prisons the inmates They have access to cell phones.
This response arose after a journalist’s question about when the actions that allow the entry of electronic devices for the inmatessince the law prohibits its use.
Hernández Basilio acknowledged that some satellite dishes in the prisonsespecially in La Victoria. However, he pointed out that they have a Control Unit of Technological Crimes, which each year carries out a dismantling process and closely monitors these cases in all cases. penitentiary centers of the country.
Furthermore, he recalled the project of signal blocking in the prisons of the Dominican Republic, headed by Guido Gómez Mazarapresident of the Dominican Institute of Telecommunications (Indotel), whose objective is to reduce cyber crimes that are created from the penitentiary centers.
According to Gómez Mazara, the initial plan contemplates opening a tender before the end of 2024 and implementing the system in four prisons key to the country. Indotel has allocated a fund of 300 million pesos, in collaboration with the Attorney General’s Office, to install signal blockers in prisons, thus reinforcing security in the penitentiary system.
On the particular, Roberto Hernandez reported that this Friday the authorities will visit the Anamuya prisonin the La Altagracia provinceto carry out a survey of the placement system. This same activity will be carried out in other penitentiary centers.
The director of prisons spoke during the inauguration of the Freedom Provisional Care Centerin the San Pedro de Macorís province.
In the Dominican Republic, the prohibition of the use of cell phones and other electronic devices on the part of the inmates is contemplated in the Law 113-21which establishes the prison regime and detention centers.
This law regulates the detention conditions and establishes that the inmates They should not have access to devices that could compromise the prison system security or facilitate criminal activities from within the prisons.
