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Source: The Rio Times (26/12/2022)
Read country-profileChile: a special prison for indigenous peoples
The Chilean Ministry of Justice is currently examining the possibility of creating a detention center exclusively for detainees belonging to indigenous peoples.
“There is a group of parliamentarians from both the opposition and the ruling party who have already formally proposed to us the possibility of creating a prison for people serving a sentence who are Mapuche people. We’re looking into that,“ Chile’s Undersecretary of State for Justice, Jaime Gajardo, told La Tercera newspaper.