Sánchez Arrives to Restore Order: A Change is Being Made in the Panama Prison System
The commissioner will be in charge of leading the internal investigations to find out how the mass escape occurred and whether there was “complicity” in this movie-like getaway.
The National Police reported that Commissioner Basilio Sánchez has been appointed as the new director of Prison Security. This appointment comes in the wake of the mass escape of inmates during a riot recorded at the La Joyita Penitentiary Center, in which three prisoners died. “As the new national director of Prison Security, he will have ‘the responsibility to oversee security measures’ in the prisons.”
Commissioner Basilio Sánchez was appointed as director of the Panama Penitentiary System.
Charges Filed Against 73 Inmates Who Escaped from La Joyita prison
Most of the accused were recaptured in neighborhoods near La Joyita, such as Tanara, Paso Blanco and Las Garzas. Judge Jazmín Jaén accepted the charges for the crime of aggravated escape for 73 inmates who escaped from La Joyita prison last Monday, and maintained the precautionary measure of preventive detention. Prosecutor Zulma Dip pictured above, reported that the escapees were apprehended outside the prison and that they took advantage of the chaos inside the prison to escape, and that none of them surrendered voluntarily.
