Criminal Justice Network demands measures against COVID-19 in prisons and socio-educational

The Criminal Justice Network, in March 2020, published a note in which it exposes the risks for people deprived of their liberty regarding the proliferation of the coronavirus and the limitation of preventive measures in prisons and socio-educational. The organization defends the reduction of the prison population, through the extrication of the elderly, pregnant women, nursing mothers, mothers with children up to 12 years old, among others. In addition to the replacement for a less burdensome regime, privileging house arrest when applicable, the suspension of arrest warrants and preventive detention for precautionary measures, in order to contain the proliferation of the virus.