President Pena Nieto Inaugurates Mexico's First Oral Justice Center in Merida The Yucatan Times
go to original May 31, 2014

President and Governor unveiling the commemorative plate (http://a7.com.mx)

This week, President Enrique Peña Nieto and Governor Rolando Zapata Bello inaugurated the “Oral Justice Center of Merida” (Centro de Justicia Oral de Mérida, CJOM), the brand new 158 million pesos investment governmental facility, became the first building in all Mexico with the equipment and infrastructure official requirements for the exercise of the new Criminal Justice System.

After the unveiling of the plate commemorating the opening and accompanied by the Attorney General of the Republic, Jesús Murillo Karam; and Federal Tourism Secretary, Claudia Ruiz Massieu Salinas, the President and the Governor toured the CJOM, which in its first phase covers an area of 24 thousand 622 square meters on three levels.

This  facility has eight oral trial courts, along with working spaces for judges, prosecutors and defenders. It also has a 350 meters long tunnel that communicates the Oral Justice Center with the Social Reinsertion Center (Cereso) of Mérida, to transfer the detainees safely.

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