The government delegate in Cantabria, Pedro Casares, has highlighted the work of community prison staff to achieve “one of the fundamental principles” of the system such as the social reintegration of those who have served their sentences.
Casares said so this Wednesday in Santoña where he presided over the institutional act of the festivity of the Virgen de la Merced, patron of Penitentiary Institutions, together with the director of the penitentiary center El Dueso, Javier García Bedoya.
More than a hundred employees, representatives of the State Security Forces and Bodies and members of the Municipal Corporation have participated in this event in which the government delegate has expressed his “recognition and gratitude” to prison staff for contributing “decisively” to the social reintegration of prisoners.
Within the framework of the celebration, several distinctions have been awarded. Five workers of Penitentiary Institutions in Cantabria have been recognized with an honorable mention for their 25 years of service and decorations have been given to entities and people who collaborate in the prison of El Dueso.
Among them, the Nueva Vida Association has been recognized with the Prison Social Merit Medal for its work “both inside and outside the prison.”
In his speech, the government delegate in Cantabria indicated that he hopes to be able to visit El Dueso soon where, he recalled, the Ministry of the Interior has made an investment of more than 16.5 million euros to modernize its facilities.