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11-06-2009, 03:00 PM
President Leonel Fernandez was in Espaillat province yesterday to attend the inauguration of the new Correctional and Rehabilitation Center La Isleta, built at a cost of RD$261,869,363.
The facility was blessed by the auxiliary bishop of Santiago, Valentin Reynoso, and the central speech was delivered by Attorney General Radhames Jimenez. Jimenez emphasized the social impact of the new penal facility. "We hope that this penal center will contribute to peace and security in the province of Espaillat and the neighboring provinces by producing proper and useful citizens".
The Rehabilitation Center has a capacity for 1,200 inmates. It has 14 classrooms equipped by the Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel), as well as areas for sports, cultural, recreational and spiritual activities.
The prison also has four workshops for metalworking, textile processes, woodworking, and electricity, where beds, furniture, school desks, uniforms, bed covers and power inverters can be made.
Personalities attending the inauguration included businessman Jose Luis Corripio Estrada, Senator Francisco Dominguez Brito, Armed Forces Minister Lieutenant General Pedro Antonio Pena Antonio, Culture Minister Jose Rafael Lantigua, National Penitentiary Schools director Roberto Santana and Indotel president Jose Rafael Vargas.
During his trip to the northeastern province, Fernandez also visited several other projects under construction in Espaillat.
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The facility was blessed by the auxiliary bishop of Santiago, Valentin Reynoso, and the central speech was delivered by Attorney General Radhames Jimenez. Jimenez emphasized the social impact of the new penal facility. "We hope that this penal center will contribute to peace and security in the province of Espaillat and the neighboring provinces by producing proper and useful citizens".
The Rehabilitation Center has a capacity for 1,200 inmates. It has 14 classrooms equipped by the Dominican Telecommunications Institute (Indotel), as well as areas for sports, cultural, recreational and spiritual activities.
The prison also has four workshops for metalworking, textile processes, woodworking, and electricity, where beds, furniture, school desks, uniforms, bed covers and power inverters can be made.
Personalities attending the inauguration included businessman Jose Luis Corripio Estrada, Senator Francisco Dominguez Brito, Armed Forces Minister Lieutenant General Pedro Antonio Pena Antonio, Culture Minister Jose Rafael Lantigua, National Penitentiary Schools director Roberto Santana and Indotel president Jose Rafael Vargas.
During his trip to the northeastern province, Fernandez also visited several other projects under construction in Espaillat.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#3)