“At the moment there is no clear regulation governing the process, its diversion and its consequences,” confirmed the Director of Justice of the Basque government, Eugenio Artetxe.
The design of the “Basque Strategy for Restorative Justice 2022-2025” aims to “universalize, systematize and consolidate” programs of restorative encounters in the prison environment, where victims and perpetrators will determine whether it is appropriate for them.
“At the moment there is no clear regulation governing the process, its diversion and its consequences,” confirmed the Director of Justice of the Basque government, Eugenio Artetxeat the opening of a conference entitled “Reparative Justice in Prisons” held this Thursday, which was also attended by the Minister of Equality, Justice and Social Policy of the Basque Government, Beatriz Artolazabal
Artetxe has cited that the Victim Support Service (SAV) assisted 2,272 people in 2020; the Service for the Management of Alternative Sanctions and Measures has carried out some 6,000 executions of Community Action (TBC) and that the Restorative Justice Service itself, acting by judicial referral in criminal investigations and prosecutions, has handled 1,260 cases treated in 2019.
He also remembered the “experiences” in this penitentiary environment, such as the meetings of the via Nanclaresamong relatives of victims and prisoners of ETAor volunteer programs in Zaballa (79 people between 2012-2019).
Regarding the recovery processes involving people affiliated with ETA, Councilor Artolazabal has said that “we are working now and we will continue to work with determination from the discretion” and believes that restorative justice “can be very helpful to continue progress.” books in the coexistence in Euskadi, after the bloody decades of ETA terrorism”.
However, Artetxe has indicated that access to restorative justice will continue depending on the type of crime (mainly minor)the age of the offender and the stage of the process, “without clear regulations governing it, nor sufficient information and training among legal operators, nor standards about the status and procedure of the facilitators.”
That is why the concept of the strategy has been drawn up, which consists of three axes (access, knowledge and trust and culture change), with 18 objectives and 77 actions.
This proposal is currently being contrasted with the administrators of the criminal justice and penitentiary system to record their contributions and is also expected to draw conclusions from the experiences discussed in today’s session, as Artetxe noted.
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