translated from Spanish: Minister Larraín on those who access pardon: “We are not going to let them not fulfill such a delicate obligation”

The Minister of Justice and Human Rights, Hernán Larraín, referred to the law of commutative pardon to inmates of low danger which was enacted this morning by President Sebastián Piñera.The secretary of state explained that “that will mean that 1,700 people will be able to change their deprivation of liberty by house arrest, decongesting the prisons for health reasons”. In addition, he stated that this figure “is higher than we had originally scheduled or thought about, and that is because in this regard more permits have been granted, Sunday or weekend departure by the various prisons, thus facilitating an increase of people to be beneficiaries”. Larraín also detailed that approximately 200 women will benefit and if they take a pardon as “you must sign the application and you will be provided with a document containing all the rules you must observe during the period under house arrest.” We hope that the beneficiaries will fulfill this commitment, otherwise it will be removed immediately, because we believe this is too serious and we will not let them not fulfil an obligation as delicate as the one granted to them,” the head of the portfolio ended.

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