On June 1, the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, began his second five-year term, after pulverizing the opposition with 85% of the votes in the February elections. This time he promised to improve the country’s economy.
Although on the day of his swearing-in he assured that under his government the country “he was cured of gangs“, has no intention of reducing its anti-crime policies. And one of the initiatives it will maintain is the “Zero Leisure Plan“.
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Bukele’s plan that puts prisoners to work
Specifically, this measure seeks to ensure that inmates who have committed crimes minors clean streets, beaches, fix hospitals and schools or build homesas a way to repair the damage they have done to society.
According to the government site, more than 2,000 prisoners in the trust phase participate daily in various activities such as, for example, erasing graffiti, cleaning garbage from beaches and participating in the repair of educational centers and hospitals.
“Under the new prison system, the necessary conditions have been created to ensure that 100% of those deprived of liberty are disciplined in productive activities“, reads one of the articles.
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Some of the objectives of Bukele’s project are to improve discipline and order within these penitentiary centers, in addition to promoting the rehabilitation and reintegration of inmates into society. It is also expected that with the implementation of this plan, criminal recidivism can be reduced.
As explained by the international journalist from Meganoticias, Marianne Schmidt“100% of penitentiary centers already allow people deprived of liberty to specialize in some activity, such as painting or shoemaking.”
Samuel Diazdirector of the Industrial Center, one of the country’s prison farms, explained to El País de Costa Rica that the chosen inmates have no ties to gangs or criminal organizations.
“They are classified according to their qualities and what they performed when they were outside, in free life, and later by the skills that they have learned here within the prison system,” he indicated.
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