Las Parras jail prepares to receive inmates

[Dolores]

Las Parras Jail / José Peguero / Youtube

YouTube channel guru Jose Peguero toured the Las Parras jail with Roberto Santana, the consultant on jails to the Presidency, as the Abinader administration prepares the jail built by former Attorney General Jean Alain Rodriguez to receive its first 2,000 inmates in be accommodated in the first of four quadrants at the large jail.

Each building has four floors, with washing machines installed in the first floor, a barber shop in the second, mental health office in the third floor, and deposit area for sheets, etc on the fourth floor. The first quadrant has a park and sports courts for the recreation of the inmates.

The jail with capacity for 8,000 inmates was inaugurated in the last weeks of the Danilo Medina administration in August 2020. Its construction was handled by the Attorney General Office under Rodriguez. Rodriguez...

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[JD Jones]

In case anyone is wondering, this gives you an idea of how big Las Parras is, and which part is being activated.

That place is huge:

 

[CristoRey]

Ah yes, the beginning of the prison boom I've been talking about.
Gotta house all of those children who never went back to school after the Covid closures somewhere, don't they?
(aka the new generation of Ninis)

 

[JD Jones]

The DR CECOT.

 

[windeguy]

That failed war on drugs isn't a failure for jail builders.

 

[JD Jones]

That failed war on drugs isn't a failure for jail builders.

You know who got rich from that, right?

 

[windeguy]

You know who got rich from that, right?

I don't know who is getting rich on this jail. Who is that? Other than it was built by former Attorney General Jean Alain Rodriguez..

 

[JD Jones]

I don't know who is getting rich on this jail. Who is that? Other than it was built by former Attorney General Jean Alain Rodriguez..

He may end up spending some time there. Stranger things have happened.