Overview
- Peru’s justice minister presented the country’s penitentiary reform package to MERCOSUR ministers and held a bilateral meeting with Paraguay’s justice minister to align protocols for prison management and internal intelligence.
- The two ministers formalized mutual invitations for prison visits and agreed to homologate (standardize) penitentiary and intelligence procedures to improve control of facilities and share operational practices.
- Peru says its Plan Nacional de Deshacinamiento combines construction of new detention space with administrative measures to expedite release for low‑risk inmates and transfers of high‑risk prisoners to maximum‑security sites.
- Reintegration programs highlighted include Justicia Móvil, which brings legal services into prisons, and Cárceles Productivas, which the ministry says has involved more than 20,000 people through vocational work and entrepreneurship.
- Lima announced a near‑term timetable to operationalize a Subsistema Especializado contra la Extorsión y Delitos Conexos, creating dedicated prosecutors, courts and police units to start work in July to target extortion and sicariato and strengthen cross‑border responses to organized crime.