This was stated by the Minister of Justice of the Basque Government, María Jesús San José, during the summer course on prisons that began this Monday in the Miramar Palace in San Sebastián.
The Minister of Justice of the Basque Government, María Jesús San José, has assured that her department will do everything possible to ensure that ETA prisoners, when they serve their sentences and are released from prison, “admit not only the pain but also the profound injustice” of the damage caused.”
“We will not give up trying” and prepare them to “return to the streets of a Euskadi that is the exact opposite of what they fought for,” said San José, who took part on Monday at the Miramar Palace in San Sebastián, in the opening of the UPV/EHU summer course ‘Humanisation of the prison: hope and challenge for the Basque penitentiary model’, organised by the regional government.
In his speech, he justified the organization of the course in view of the “decisive moment of the agreed model for the management of prisons, once we have adopted its comprehensive competence” and in which “the definition of the penitentiary model has everything to do with the definition of the society we want to be”.
The new Minister of Justice and Human Rights of the Basque Government has stressed that, “although we do not like to commemorate the tragedy” that terrorism represented and despite the fact that “Euskadi managed to put an end to it”, “the consequences of the pain caused to the victims” remain and “the consequences that the murderers have caused to themselves”, such as the sentences imposed by the courts.
They will be released from prison “when it is their turn,” confirmed San José, who insisted his efforts were to make them do so by “admitting” the damage caused and “preparing” them for reintegration into the Basque society in which they live. He said he wanted to “impose a political project,” but that it is “multifaceted” and “fairly coherent and advanced.”
The Socialist adviser clarified that prisoners serving sentences for terrorism represent “barely 10% of the total” of the inmate population in Basque prisons, so her department intends to “guarantee the rights of all of them in the same way”, a task that, as he stressed, “deserves a complete, complementary and collaborative approach between authorities.”
Source: EITB
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