Nicaragua's government plans to put out to tender and build a high-tech maximum security detention center in 2013 with an investment of more than $7 million.
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Using money seized from drug traffickers, Nicaragua will attend to it’s prison overpopulation problem, building rehabilitation centers in Managua, Leon and Bluefields, and a maximum security prison facility to house foreign narcotics traffickers.
The Minister of the Interior, Ana Isable Morales, said the estimated cost for these projects is approximately $7.2 million.
According to a Pastrana Report of October 16, 2012 "The Director of the National Penitentiary System confirmed that a maximum security module in the Model Prison in Tipitapa city, 20 kilometers from Managua, is under construction, and they will move on to the execution of a new center with similar protective measures ... As indicated, the future prison will be financed using some of the money recently seized from a drug gang who entered the country under the guise of reporters from the Mexican Television chain Televisa, and whose trial will take place in early December ... of the more than nine million dollars taken from the group, seven million have been made available to the prison system. "
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A maximum security facility, for the crime and financial investigation divisions of the Judicial Police, was announced in Panama.
In order to pay for the 33 story building, the Panamanian Public Ministry (MP) will use $32 million in seized assets, which were "derived from the equivalent of confiscation of gold, after the capture and conviction of foreign nationals who used the Colon Free Zone, to commit unlawful acts and were prosecuted and punished in the U.S. "
Following the award of contracts to build 900 modules and expand and remodel 22 prisons, new bidding processes for additional prisons were announced.
An article in AGN reports that "The Guatemala ministry of Interior is to invest Q543,169,775 [$ 69 million] in the expansion and renovation of prisons.
The project, which is in the planning stage, is for accommodation for about a thousand prisoners.
The overpopulation seen in various jails around the country has forced the authorities to seek options to address the problem. Currently, among the Ministry of Interior’s plans is the construction of a maximum security prison.
The Government presented the draft of the new maximum security prison to be built with a donation from the Government of Taiwan.
Nery Morales, Interior Ministry spokesman said that they have not yet identified the property where it will be built, but are managing two options. He added that they are awaiting a U.S. architect specialized in these types of constructions.
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