Cuba enters 2024 with the second place in prison population rate in the world, according to figures fromWorld Prison Brief (WPB), a database that offers information on the prison systems of all countries.
In Cuban prisons there is an inmate rate of 794 per 100,000 inhabitants, which gives a total of around 90,000 people in prison.
The Island has only been surpassed by El Salvador, a country recognized for its long history of violence, where gangs and organized crime abound, and that after the arrival to power ofNayib Bukele It has a prison rate of 1.086.
The scientist Amilcar Pérez Riverol assured on his Twitter account that this is, without a doubt, one of the most brutal failures of the revolution and a very serious wound for the nation.
WPB is housed at the Institute for Crime and Justice Policy Research (ICPR) at the University of London, and relies on figures from government or official sources to compile its data.
Javier Larrondo, president of the NGO Prisoners Defenders, explained toMartí News the work that was done in Cuba in 2020 with the support of other organizations, MEPs and various personalities.
"Prisoners Defenders demonstrated with internal evidentiary information from the Ministry of the Interior, both the prison population of Cuba and the national statistics of repression in all areas, including an investigation of the complementary pre-criminal sentences, for which we pay Cuban officials for the files police of all prisoners for pre-criminality," he explained.
"We brought to light that Cuba had 90,000 prisoners in prisons and another 37,500 condemned in domiciliary situations or forced labor without internment," he said.
"This entity must have taken more than three years to verify all the documents sent, but, upon ratification, we are pleased that Cuba finally, officially, appears as the second country in terms of prisoner rate in the world, with the exact rate that We then calculated 794 prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants," he stressed.
"Cuba has a savage prison population and places itself at the head of world repression in an official and transparent manner, with an official brand that will last for years, as long as the dictatorship remains in place. The World Prison Brief has the endorsement of all political institutions in the world, so the achievement is unprecedented," he stressed.
On the WPB list, behind Cuba are Rwanda, Turkmenistan, Samoa and the United States, which occupies sixth place.
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