Law Students to Review Prisoner Records in Mexico City for Possible Early Release Leticia Fernandez - Milenio
go to original October 7, 2013

A new possibility for freedom will open up to 8,000 defendants accused of minor crimes and also for those who have shown good behavior and have served out a percentage of their sentence.

The Secretariat of the Federal District [Mexico City] Penitentiary System is about to sign an agreement with the National Autonomous University of Mexico so that Law School advisers and students may contribute to analyzing these legal records.

Prison authorities asked for support from university students in light of the high number of cases of inmates who are eligible for benefits - such as early release, release with bond payments and adjustment of sentences - that are not currently being carried out.

This delay, the Penitentiary System deputy minister, Mayela Almontes, admitted, is a consequence of the excess work that the judicial department of the prisons have, and this action is one of the ways they will follow to reduce the levels of overcrowding that plague the jails.

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