Does the 360-Day Prison Year Decree that Laura Fernández Quoted Change Something? Text Has Not Been Made Public, but This Is What We Know
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The president of the Republic, Laura Fernández, announced as one of her first decrees the establishment of the 360-day prison year. In the face of the announcement, criminal lawyers raise doubts.The first is that what the president says is what the current regulations already provide.Another question is that, what seems to be the intention of the decree of Fernández, whose text has not yet been made public, may violate the law. “There is no such…
The president of Costa Rica, right-wing Laura Fernández, issued by decree this Friday a new regulation that eliminates "prison benefits" that reduce prison time for prisoners, in one of the first government acts aligned with her promise to have a hard hand against crime. The entry The president of Costa Rica eliminates by decree benefits that reduce prison time was first published in Proceso Digital.
Costa Rican President Laura Fernández, a right-wing politician, issued a new decree on Friday eliminating "prison benefits" that reduce the prison term of inmates, in one of the first acts of her administration aligned with her promise to crack down on crime. "With this, there will be no doubt that a prison year is 360 calendar days; no more excuses that a prison year is only eight months," she stated during a brief Cabinet meeting following her…
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