PROBATION AND PAROL BODY DOMINICAN REPUBLIC BACKGROUND IN

PROBATION AND PAROL BODY DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

BACKGROUND • IN 1920 , THE ABSENCE OF SUPERVISION, CONTROL AND TRACKING OF THE OFFENDERS, FINISHED AND DISREPUTE PROBATION INSTITUTE. IT WAS RESTORED , THEORETICALLY, AT 2009 WHEN BEGAN OFFICIALLY THE PROBATION AND PAROL BODY. PILOT PROGRAM START AT 2010. DR. PEREZ SANCHEZ 2

JUSTIFICATION • “PROBATION AND PAROL BODY ” BORN TO CONTROL, MONITOR, TO GIVE CARE AND HELP TO 15, 000 OFFENDERS IN CONDITIONAL LIBERTY; 31, 000 DOMINICANS INMMATES IN FOREIGNS COUNTRIES; AND 3, 000 DEPORTEES ANNUALLY. DR. PEREZ SANCHEZ 3

ESSENCE/NATURE • GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION, PROACTIVE, PROFESSIONALIZED, DISCIPLINED, HIERARCHICAL, UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE DIRECTION OF PRISONS; WHICH RELATES WITH JUDICIAL, POLICIALS, AND INVESTIGATIVES AUTHORITIES AND POST PENITENTIARY ASSISTENCE AGENCIES, TO EVALUATE ON THE FIELD THE APLICANTS TO CONDITIONAL LIBERTY BY THE JUGDE’S ORDER; MONITOR THE RELEASED, SUPERVISE THEIR SOCIAL REINSERTION AND TAKE CARE TO PREVENT RECIDIVISM. DR. PEREZ SANCHEZ 4

LEGAL BASIS DR. PEREZ SANCHEZ 5

• 0. -Minimum standards of the United Nations in 1955 on the treatment of prisoners; The Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Basic Principles on the use of force and firearms by law enforcement officials to enforce the law; Inter-American Convention to prevent and punish torture, 1985; Resolution No. 43 -173 the United Nations 12/09/1988 on the Protection of All Persons under Any Form of Detention or Imprisonment; Principles for the Treatment of Prisoners; The American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man, 1948; The Declaration on the Protection of all persons against torture and other cruel; The Declaration of Principles and Good Practice for the Protection of Persons Deprived of Liberty in the Americas. DR. PEREZ SANCHEZ 6

1. -Law No. 224, June 26, 1984, Official Gazette No. 9640, establish the penitentiary system, and also establish the Department of Control, on the letter “N”, article 9. 2. -Article 8 of Law 224 -84 authorizes the General Direction of Prisons to ensure strict compliance and enforcement of all laws and regulations relating to the prison service, whose rules, assumptions and principles are effective, means social rehabilitation of persons deprived of liberty. DR. PEREZ SANCHEZ 7

3. -The General Direction of Prisons, considering that must have administrative tool that allow them to develop effectively their traditional roles and take on new roles designed to exercise his authority as an institution responsible for providing security to society and ensure the rights of the inmates, by the Resolution No. 1711 -2011, implemented the Control Department, named by “Probation and Parole Body” on November 2009. DR. PEREZ SANCHEZ 8

4. -The Prison Management Manual, the Rules of Court of Execution of Sentences, regulations for the transport of persons deprived of liberty, of education within the correctional system, nutrition, intelligence and correctional research, sports, religion, health, ethics committees, and others. DR. PEREZ SANCHEZ 9

MISSION Protect and serve the community verifying compliance with conditions parole, conditional suspension of proceedings, suspension of sentence, judicial forgiveness and alternatives to deprivation of liberty, coordination with judicial and administrative authorities, in accordance with the rules developed for such purposes. DR. PEREZ SANCHEZ 10

VALUES § SECURITY § CONTROL § RESPECT AND SUPPORT TO HUMAN DIGNITY DR. PEREZ SANCHEZ 11

MAIN TARGET • To impede the recidivism, monitor and help the offenders and inmates released of the prisons in the country and the foreign, once deportees, when they are in the streets, in their social reinsertion process, in order to serve and protect the comunity DR. PEREZ SANCHEZ 12

SPECIFICS OBJECTIVES A) Provide protection and security services to the population, ensuring compliance with court orders, conducting research, monitoring and tracking of inmates on parole, conditional suspension of execution and special conditions, according to system needs and opportunities and resources available. DR. PEREZ SANCHEZ 13

b) Keep informed and to make recommendations requested by the Judge of Penalty Execution System, Corrections, The House of the Redeemer and all related organizations. DR. PEREZ SANCHEZ 14

• c) Monitor compliance with conditions of freedom, do research to communicate their findings to the Judge of Execution of Sentences, facilitate the control of personnel who receive benefits from the House of the Redeemer or related organizations and perform other tasks DR. PEREZ SANCHEZ 15

• d) Receiving signatures, control of working hours for community and home visits and follow-up monitoring. DR. PEREZ SANCHEZ 16

• e) Monitor and supervise the conduct of those who have profited from early release ; manage if the revocation of the freedoms granted to those who have shown unfavorable conditions for their social reintegration. DR. PEREZ SANCHEZ 17

• f) Work in close collaboration with the Department of Investigation and Correctional Intelligence and other intelligence agencies of public security system, DR. PEREZ SANCHEZ 18

• g) Support the Department of Post Penitentiary Assistance and work with its functions, goals and objectives. DR. PEREZ SANCHEZ 19

GOALS • TO ESTABLISH PROBATION AND PAROLE BODY DURING 2011 • TO SERVE FOUR JUDICIARY DEPARTMENTS DURING 2012 • TO COMPLETE SERVICE TO ALLS JUDICIARY DEPARTAMENTS DURING 2013 • TO REACH LEVEL OPERATIONAL OF 650 CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS DURING 2014 • MONITOR AND SERVE TO 15, 000 INMATES AT 2014 DR. PEREZ SANCHEZ 20

Strategies 1. To implement the best practices in probatory programs, respecting human rights 2. -Provide secure monitor 3. -To make an efective internal and external comunication 5. To create an optimal administrative, financial, and tecnological information soport DR. PEREZ SANCHEZ 21

Structure Probation and Parol Director Assistant Administrative s Services Operations Community services DR. PEREZ SANCHEZ Liaisson 22

PRESENT DAY 6 Probation Officers 90 supervised cases from the beginning 54 monitoring inmates at the moment 1 Parol revocation Assistance: To obtain identifications, job, driver license, marriage , child birth certificate DR. PEREZ SANCHEZ 23

THANKS DR. PEREZ SANCHEZ 24