Penitentiary Policy Council
The Penitentiary Policy Council is a collegial body with powers to define penitentiary policies; investigate problems related to prisons and suggest solutions; study and recommend infrastructure and penitentiary restructuring, and promote the organization of national and international conferences in this area. It also provides counseling for the prevention and comprehensive care of persons deprived of their liberty and reintegration into the family, educational, work and social environment. It is comprised of the Ministry of the Government, the Supreme Court of Justice, the Attorney General's Office, the Office of the Ombudsman, the Executive Management of the Penitentiary System, representatives of the National Assembly of Human Rights Commission, the National Police, churches, the Institute of the Ombudsman's Office, the National Bar Association, the Institute of Criminology, and human rights and penitentiary organizations.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- embedded in the constitution/legislation
- Frequency
- regular
- Mode of selection of participants
- both
- Type of participants
- civil society private stakeholders
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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