Yes. I had a bit of the very same reaction when I saw the prison, since the conditions were certainly far better than where certainly the majority of these women came from! But there really IS the fact that NO one wants to go back. EVERYone wants to get out as soon as they can and works very hard to get released for good behavior.
I assume, Chiri, that if you could find a religious practionioner, a shaman, a hougan, a guru or a whatnot, to conduct a service, that would certainly be ok'd, they are completely committed to religious freedom. So says the 300 plus page handbook that I have. Ditto I suppose some sort of private witchy ceremony to the sun... one supposes.
They already have almost a third 11 out of 36 (math is not my strong suit) prisons on line, and they plan to bring them on line at the rate of 5 per year which would mean 5 years until all of them were under the new model. Not all of them are going to be new prisons, ie new physical structures, but all will have new guards and the new regulations.
This is aimed really at protecting the entire nation, so that those who come out of the prisons are not in fact the sort of hard criminals that usually come out of prisons. Those criminals usually come out and infect the community. The aim here is to actually rehabilitate the prisoners so that they can become contributing members of the society again.
As for the drug runners - there is no bail at all for drug offenses in the DR so that once you are arrested you will stay in jail until trial and after it. This is due to the fact that there is so much money in narco trafficking and there is such a great risk of flight and so many foreigners involved. Two of the women I interviewed said that they had no idea what the consequences of their actions would be. They were both picked up at the airport at Punta Cana where there are dogs.
And speaking of dogs, I was thinking about them reading this discussion because certainly you all know what happens to a dog if you treat one the way you are suggesting that we ought to treat the prisoners? They become vicious and mean and really, really dangerous......
Sorry, Mike, there is no death penalty in the DR. (The maximum sentence is 30 years which can be reduced to 15.)
except of course for all those stray bullets from the policia
I assume, Chiri, that if you could find a religious practionioner, a shaman, a hougan, a guru or a whatnot, to conduct a service, that would certainly be ok'd, they are completely committed to religious freedom. So says the 300 plus page handbook that I have. Ditto I suppose some sort of private witchy ceremony to the sun... one supposes.
They already have almost a third 11 out of 36 (math is not my strong suit) prisons on line, and they plan to bring them on line at the rate of 5 per year which would mean 5 years until all of them were under the new model. Not all of them are going to be new prisons, ie new physical structures, but all will have new guards and the new regulations.
This is aimed really at protecting the entire nation, so that those who come out of the prisons are not in fact the sort of hard criminals that usually come out of prisons. Those criminals usually come out and infect the community. The aim here is to actually rehabilitate the prisoners so that they can become contributing members of the society again.
As for the drug runners - there is no bail at all for drug offenses in the DR so that once you are arrested you will stay in jail until trial and after it. This is due to the fact that there is so much money in narco trafficking and there is such a great risk of flight and so many foreigners involved. Two of the women I interviewed said that they had no idea what the consequences of their actions would be. They were both picked up at the airport at Punta Cana where there are dogs.
And speaking of dogs, I was thinking about them reading this discussion because certainly you all know what happens to a dog if you treat one the way you are suggesting that we ought to treat the prisoners? They become vicious and mean and really, really dangerous......
Sorry, Mike, there is no death penalty in the DR. (The maximum sentence is 30 years which can be reduced to 15.)
except of course for all those stray bullets from the policia
