Quadri Proposes Alliance for Inmate Rehabilitation The News
go to original April 25, 2012

Candidate for the New Alliance, Gabriel Quadri (The News)

During a press conference on Tuesday in Monterrey, Nuevo León, the presidential candidate for the New Alliance (Panal), Gabriel Quadri, said that low-risk inmates should receive treatment by prisons run by public-private partnerships to encourage true rehabilitation.

“It is necessary to reform the country’s prison system and create public-private partnerships to operate prisons, so that low-risk inmates are managed by specialized companies with experience from other countries,” such as the United States and Europe, he said. “(These reforms) would be fundamental to stop what is currently happening … the ongoing inability to effectively manage prisons,” he said.

He added that, “in Mexico, inmates escape, they kill each other and try to extort money from people outside of prison. They aren’t being rehabilitated. Mexican prisons are crime schools. They need to become true rehabilitation centers for low-risk inmates.”

Almost 50 percent of inmates in Mexico, he said, have not yet been sentenced, while 45 percent are arrested for petty crimes involving to less than 2,500 pesos. Quadri said that the objective of his proposal is to make public-private prison systems “(provide) true rehabilitation services through employment. These types of prisons employ inmates and help them support their families and pay for incarceration costs.”

He said that prison reforms in the nation need to be approved so that the prevailing insecurity can be rectified.

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