The Attorney General’s Office has asked for the suspension of a ruling issued by a San Cristobal judge on Friday 29 December 2017, which now added up to more than 50 convicted felons she has released, many of whom accused of murder for hire, drug related offences, aggravated homicide and rape. All of the crimes are classified as serious offences in the Dominican Penal Code.
Judge Katherine A. Rubio Matos, whose granting special permissions to inmates from different jails across the country raised the attention of the authorities, has now been suspended for not observing the established rules for allowing these special permissions.
The regulations state that in order to be allowed to leave prison early, the prisoners need to have an evaluation and a certificate from the evaluation committee, psychological evaluation and legal, educational, social assistance, medical and security evaluations. There also needs to be a drug test, a pregnancy test, a field study for security and social assistance and the prisoner needs to have been allowed out of jail a minimum of six times under guard.
The Attorney General’s office has announced that those who the suspended judge released will now be returned to prison. The Attorney General Office reported that the Christmas holidays authorized for the judge to the inmates was cut short for 42, including 20 Najayo Hombres inmates, 14 Sabana Toro jail inmates and 8 Najayo Mujeres inmates, among others.
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Listin Diario
El Dia
2 January 2018
