In limbo: the Nueva Victoria Jail

[Dolores]

The Las Parras Correction and Rehabilitation Center was inaugurated in August 2020, days before the change of government by then President Danilo Medina. It was built to replace the La Victoria Jail. As reported, the Dominican government has already spent RD$6.96 billion on the construction.

The jail was built under the leadership of then Attorney General Jean Alain Rodríguez, using primarily funds from the compensation fund Odebrecht paid to the Attorney General Office for reaching an agreement not to prosecute the Brazilian construction company in the Dominican Republic.

Not long after Miriam German Brito was appointed Attorney General, she requested that the mega jail be moved from her jurisdiction to that of the new Ministry of Housing, Habitat and Buildings (Mived). Listin Diario interviewed spokespeople for the Ministry of Housing who said that they are still evaluating the...

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[CristoRey]

"We are already carrying out preliminary work on the project such as evaluation of the activities to be executed, conditioning of the accesses for the evaluations and identifying the needs for the beginning of the execution. Once this has been identified, we would be initiating the required activities".

In other words...
This is not going to be operational for a very long time.

 

[tee]

The words 'Execution' and 'Jail' in the same report should get the prisoners a little worried 🤣🤣🤣

 

[JD Jones]

They need to ask a certain president from El Salvador for recommendations.

 

[CristoRey]

They need to ask a certain president from El Salvador for recommendations.

A little shrewd but incredibly effective.

 

[drstock]

What a waste of everything - time, money etc.

 

[MiamiDRGuy]

We should built a supermax prison so we can houses these ****** in it and make sure they are in the cell room 23 hours a day and see how it feels. Problem solved.

 

[JD Jones]

This needs to be finished as a minimum security facility and used for prisoners who haven't been convicted yet, and leave the convicts in La Victoria.

 

[MariaRubia]

Is Jean Alain Rodriguez still in jail himself, or is he on house arrest now? I'm finding it tough to keep up with all these people who have been arrested for corruption.

 

[JD Jones]

Is Jean Alain Rodriguez still in jail himself, or is he on house arrest now? I'm finding it tough to keep up with all these people who have been arrested for corruption.

He is under house arrest.

 

[MariaRubia]

He is under house arrest.

I do wonder what that means in reality. I remember being told about a British woman who was under house arrest many years ago. She evidently had one policewoman sitting outside her house, who became friends with her and used to do her nails and they would go out shopping together. I wonder whether Jean Alain is basically just free to live his life but can't leave the country, or if there are any restrictions in reality? Miriam and co still have it in for him big time don't they.