FRIDAY, JUNE 5
PROGRAM # 8907 12:00 PM PT
Mexico Edition.
In the overcrowded Mexican prisons, more than 400 people have been infected with Covid-19, and almost 60 have died from it, reports a human rights organization. According to their figures, most of the infected and dead are prisoners, but more than 20 guards and police officers who worked in prisons have also died. And while in these two months of pandemic, at the national level almost 3,500 people obtained their freedom for having served their sentences, more than 25 thousand prisoners have the right to get out of prison because they meet the requirements legal, according to the source. The problem, he says, is that the courts are also quarantined and nobody has bothered to speed up the processes. In addition, on another topic, a former prisoner narrates his experience behind bars, and gives an account about the corruption and abuse against prisoners that haunts Mexico’s prisons. Martha Elena Ramírez hosts this program from Mexico City.
Guests: (Recorded Interviews) José Luis Gutiérrez Roman, Asistencia Legal por los Derechos Humanos, Mexico City; Professor Óscar Hernández Neri, Former Political Prisoner, Chicoloapan Community High School, México State.
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