CNDH calls for compliance with the National Penal Execution Law

Reiterates the call to federal and state authorities to fully address Recommendation 51VG/2014.

Five years after the publication of the National Penal Enforcement Act (LNEP), the National Human Rights Commission (CNDH) makes a respectful but forceful appeal to the federal and state prison systems to carry out substantive activities to comply with it, to guarantee access to basic services in prison and to an effective social reintegration in favor of persons deprived of liberty in our country.

Likewise, this National Commission identified that it has not been aware of the installation and work carried out by the Committee for the Implementation, Evaluation and Monitoring of the Penal Enforcement System and that, although the Law provides for conditional and early freedoms, the replacement and temporary suspension of sentences, humanitarian permits, pre-release by criteria of prison policy and therapeutic justice , among other aspects, in practice, there is still a lack of awareness of these resources among the prison population; in addition to lack of access to adequate and timely defence; the existence of cases concentrated in few public defenders; lack of follow-up to these procedures and delay on the part of the authorities in their resolution.

Finally, for this National Agency, the implementation of the National Penal Enforcement Act must move towards a dynamic process that allows persons deprived of their liberty to be placed at the centre of joint actions, based on co-responsibility among all State institutions, and reiterates that, in accordance with the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic Rights. , Social and Cultural will continue to monitor that all possible steps are taken in favor of the protection and guarantee of human rights.