A society behind bars

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Today's editorial in Hoy newspaper comments on how more and more Dominican families and businesses have had to install bars and security systems for self-protection, and reminisces about the old days. The newspaper points to the need for increasing Police funding, which would include better-paid policemen as a way of preventing corruption. "To guarantee good work and effective surveillance with poorly paid policemen is a utopia that is costing us more than if we paid decent wages to those who need to battle the criminals," writes the newspaper. "On the other hand, it is necessary to identify the weaknesses of the judicial system that seems to protect the criminal more than its victims. "Without questioning the judiciary, somewhere in the machinery of justice the conditions are there to facilitate record time releases," writes the newspaper. It concludes: "There is a widespread loss of security that has obliged our society to live behind bars, without trust and elusive, under the burden of fear and suspicions."

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