Overview
- The interinstitutional agreement between the Ministerio Público and the Ministry of Justice formalizes access to penitentiary information for criminal investigations.
- Prosecutors will be able to review ten years of prison records and communications to identify networks operating from inside facilities.
- Authorities describe the access as regulated, and one account reports the data will be depurated for strategic analysis rather than delivered as personal inmate files.
- President José Jerí criticized earlier authorities for not using the accumulated information despite prisons being used to coordinate extortion and contract killings.
- Jerí said further measures to strengthen efforts against organized crime will be announced soon.