The Mexican government has released 3,359 inmates so far during the presidency of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (2018-2024) because they were unjustly in jail or because of the Amnesty Law promoted by the president.
Most of the time they are humble people who did not commit serious crimes, but who are confined because they could not pay a lawyer or did not have a translator or have faced adversity”,
Secretary of Security, Rosa Icela Rodríguez, declared this Thursday during the daily press conference of the Mexican president.
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The official explained that of the total releases, 3,194 were pre-releases, based on a decree promulgated by López Obrador in September 2021 to release indigenous people, women, the elderly, people with terminal illnesses, people with disabilities and victims of torture.
He pointed out that the last releases, which occurred between September 16 and October 26 of this year, were 674, of which 645 were pre-releases.
Of these, 33 were women, 23 older adults, 114 people with chronic degenerative diseases and 12 indigenous; In addition, 29 amnesties were added for 20 people in poverty, two women, two indigenous people, two people with disabilities, two victims of intimidation and one victim of discrimination.
In this way we advance in the transformation process promoted by President López Obrador from the humanistic and justice perspective”,
Rodriguez explained.
What does the Amnesty Law?
The Amnesty Lawwhich the Government promulgated in April 2020, seeks release a persons sentenced or in pretrial detention by crimes such as abortion, petty theft or drug possession.
The president had promised to carry out the mass release more than a year ago, on September 15, 2021, when he reported more than 4,000 cases under analysis.
While the Amnesty Law had the objective of freeing some 6,000 people.
But the prisons have a recognized overcrowding of more than 9,000 inmates and 130 prisons with an excess of detainees, while at the national level there are a total of almost 226,000 people in prison, according to the National Penitentiary Statistical Information Notebook of the Security Secretariat. .
Of those arrested, about 40% are only processed, but have not yet received a sentence.
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