Peru Gives Green Light to Privatized Prisons
Peru Gives Green Light to Privatized Prisons
Published 4 August 2015
The Peruvian government looks to private investment in prisons to tackle organized crime.
The Peruvian government cleared the way for the privatization of prisons, Chief Minister Pedro Cateriano announced Mo0nday.
The moves comes among a raft of penal reforms aimed at tackling organized crime, the minister said, including increasing sentences for hired killers, and geolocating suspects through mobile devices.
The reasoning behind the change to prison funding, according to the official, was because “today, a lot of the crime coordination activities happen from prison facilities.”
“We open the possibility of mixed system, that allows simultaneously the role of the State with the support of private companies,” said Cateriano, “and that also we have technically administered prisons, with technological advances, with private investment.”
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