The Minister of Security of Neuquén, Matías Nicolini, met yesterday for the first time with his Nation counterpart, Patricia Bullrichand one of the main topics they analyzed was the situation of the province’s overcrowded prisons. The government seeks to be able to finalize the agreement that had been promised but not finalized in the previous administration so that module 4 of the Senillosa prison, today under the federal orbit, is transferred to it.
“She was open”he assured yesterday RÍO NEGRO Diary the official, who recognized that Bullrich was already in issue because it was precisely during the government of Mauricio Macri, in which he held the same position as now, when the province signed the transfer of the U9 to Senillosa in exchange for keeping the property and the old building in the center of the capital.
What is sought now is to be able to accommodate prisoners from the provincial system in that federal unit, more precisely in module 4. With that and with the works that allow the installation of pavilion 7 of the U11which is closed, Rolando Figueroa’s management could get some relief from the problem.
For the second it has a imposed judicial deadline that will expire in February, while to advance an agreement with the Nation there are, for now, few details. As Nicolini said yesterday, the meeting with Bullrich was “very good” and they talked about resuming “a relationship that had been established with the previous management and that was left unfinished.”
Last December, the former Undersecretary of Security, Marianina Domínguez, appeared as a witness at a hearing on the prison crisis before the criminal execution judge, Raquel Gass, and there she had admitted, when asked by the defense, that she did not have any signature of Nation committing to the delivery of module 4 to the province. She only had the word of the then Minister of Justice, Martín Soria, who, like Domínguez, left his position on December 10.
Nicolini assessed that the The prison situation could also be aggravated by the modification of the direct trial that the Legislature approved last year and that will speed up sentences, ergo, the demand for places in the already saturated provincial prisons.
The minister added that, during the meeting with Bullrich, support was also requested for the training of the police and the penitentiary service and that there was a commitment from the official to collaborate in the acquisition of dual devices for victims of gender violence.
Nicolini assured that the anti-picket protocolwhich the province has not applied, was not part of the talk. “It wasn’t even mentioned”he asserted.