Luanda - At least five new penitentiary centres are expected to start operating this year in the country, under the scope of the Integrated Plan for Intervention in Municipalities (PIIM).
The information was provided Friday to ANGOP by the general director of the Penitentiary Service, Prison Chief Commissioner Bernardo do Amaral Gourgel.
According to the official, who was speaking on the occasion of the 43rd anniversary of this institution, which will be celebrated on March 20, the ongoing works, with the respective integrated services, are being executed in Cacongo (Cabinda), Matala (Huila), Cassongo (Kwanza Sul), Kukuma (Bié) and Boma (Moxico).
He said that the Government had drawn up a programme to meet the demand and adjust the compartmentalisation of the penal population.
He indicated that his sector is focused on the creation of decent housing conditions, with the construction and rehabilitation of prison infrastructures, to accommodate the precepts of the progressive regime, according to which the prisoners should be compartmentalised according to sex, age, legal situation and criminal nature.
