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Adela Navarro

BC: prisons, between corruption and neglect*.

The change of security chiefs in less than two years of Avila's administration in BC is not a good sign.
BC: prisons, between corruption and neglect*.
By Adela Navarro

María Elena Andrade, the current attorney general of the state of Baja California was, from November 24, 2021 to August 23, 2023, commissioner of the State Penitentiary System. An entity that has been going downhill since it was removed from the power of the Secretary of Public Security of the State, when the bonillista reform in 2019, merged that agency with the Attorney General's Office, to create the State Attorney General's Office.

In charge of the administration and operation of the prisons, the supervision of the inmates and the execution of sentences, the State Penitentiary System Commission was created as an autonomous entity, at least from the State Attorney General's Office, at the whim of the former Secretary General of Government, Amador Rodríguez Lozano, who wanted to have full control of the prisons, where it would be known later -when they were pointed out and investigated-, they tried to commission the services that were contracted for the operation of the prisons, for example, the food.

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