Original disclosure @ IADB website
Updated in EWS Oct 2, 2020
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The aim is to propose guidelines to implement a new comprehensive management model in the prison system to strengthen the institutional response capacity to a new public health crisis and to have a prison policy with a humanitarian vision and respect for human rights. In the short term, it will contribute to generating sanitary guidelines and contagion mitigation mechanisms; in the medium and long term, it will help to reduce overcrowding and incorporate secure technological solutions. This new prison management model will include: (i) care protocols for the physical, mental and social well-being of people deprived of liberty based on international standards, identifying best practices and lessons learned in adopting sanitary measures, alternative measures to incarceration to decongest the prisons and technology adoption; (ii) model project of innovative technological tools in prisons, following the protocols required to implement them, to facilitate remote communication, conduct virtual audiences, adopt telemedicine and tele-education practices.
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The Independent Consultation and Investigation Mechanism (MICI) is the independent complaint mechanism and fact-finding body for people who have been or are likely to be adversely affected by an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) or Inter-American Investment Corporation (IIC)-funded project. If you submit a complaint to MICI, they may assist you in addressing the problems you raised through a dispute-resolution process with those implementing the project and/or through an investigation to assess whether the IDB or IIC is following its own policies for preventing or mitigating harm to people or the environment. You can submit a complaint by sending an email to MICI@iadb.org. You can learn more about the MICI and how to file a complaint at http://www.iadb.org/en/mici/mici,1752.html (in English) or http://www.iadb.org/es/mici/mici,1752.html (Spanish).