In an interview on Radio Vitoria, the Minister of Equality, Justice and Social Policy revealed that the Basque government had refused the transfer of five ETA prisoners to prisons in the Basque Country because “they did not meet the requirement of rooting, which is essential in Basque fashion model”.
With only a few days to go until a year has passed since the Basque government took over the management of the prison centers of Araba, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa, the Minister of Justice and Social Policy, Beatriz Artolazabalhas a “positive balanceof these months, although he has acknowledged that they were aware of the difficulties they faced. complex transferhe pointed out.
In an interview last Thursday on Radio Vitoria, artolazabalhas revealed that the Basque government has refused the transfer of 5 ETA prisoners to prisons in Euskadi because “they did not meet the requirement of arraigokey in the Basque prison model.” “What we do is obey the law,” he said.
This model is based on the rehabilitation of detainees and therefore the roots are a fundamental factor in approving or rejecting a transfer request, explains the counselor.
In this sense, the requests of the ETA prisoners are analyzed “with the same rigor and with the same caution as the rest of the requests” and after examining them, the transfer of five prisoners from the gang has been refused because “they do not comply with the requirement of rooting”.
20% of vacancies in Basque penitentiary centers
During the interview, Artolazabal emphasized that about a 20% of the places in Basque prisons vacant in the Basque Country, “as in the rest of Spain” and that, through union agreements, they implement “give us a two-year transition period to adapt and make decisions that allow us to gradually implement this model”.
Artolazabal has pointed out that it is a problem that “already existed before the handover” and that the handover was presumed to be “with a series of handicaps in terms of infrastructure and in terms of personnel issues”. “We knew we had a heritage to deal with.” has exposed.
In order to be able to “partially” meet this personnel need, the minister emphasized that she recently had a vacancies for interim civil servantswhich has also provoked controversy and controversy, from his “artificial” point of view, because “the unions that today say it is an insufficient bag to meet those needs were asking for it,” he pointed out.
Artolozabal explained that this bag was made so that these interims can temporarily partially cover the existing need for staff, “because you have to make an estimate of the work and then a OPE”, who hopes to be able to call you before the end of the parliamentary term. In addition, he has asked the “responsibility” of all agents so that “we can take firm steps and execute our model”.
In reference to the protests of the last months of civil servants of pressure in Euskadi against the Basque prison model, which they say has “a serious staff shortage”, the Basque government minister has pointed out that “they are more on the margins of the management of the penitentiary centers and that they must obey union demands or political issues that somehow try to disrupt the proper functioning of the centers.
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