I do not work, that does not eat: declares a deputy of the PAN

The PAN deputy, America Rangel, He presented an initiative for prisoners to pay with work in a mandatory work within prisons, the equivalent of 10% of their support. “We need to end the laziness in prisons. We cannot continue allowing prisons to be crime schools, prisoners must remain occupied and generate money to stop being a burden for taxpayers,” he said.

The initiative proposes to modify the Law for the Execution of Criminal Sanctions and Social Reintegration for the Federal District with the purpose that persons deprived of their liberty (PPL) work in a mandatory way and that 70% your salary is for him and his dependents20% for the repair of the damage, and the remaining 10% to cover the expenses with respect to their support in the prison.

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When presenting your initiative from Tribuna, The legislator explained that currently in the prisons of Mexico City there are around 25 thousand inmates and the maintenance of each costs the treasury around 17 thousand pesos per monthaccording to official figures. “Today society has to maintain with its taxes those who have caused it and that has to end. It is not fair that while millions of honest Mexicans get up every day to work, there are people who commit crimes who live without working,” he argued .

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He said that this initiative seeks to have occupied inmates instead of being extorting by phone or professionalizing in the crime, In addition to ceasing to be a “burden” for taxpayers, while they would have the opportunity to understand the value of worktraining and acquiring skills in such a way that when they leave, they can join the labor market, instead of returning to criminal life. “This initiative that could change the course of our penitentiary system. From now on, I do not work, it does not eat,” he concluded.

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