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Another 143 Dominican prisoners repatriated from US
posted on: May 20 2010 10:45 by Royston. Viewed 799 times.
The United States repatriated on Wednesday afternoon another group of 143 Dominicans, 59 of them had served sentences in prison for drug trafficking. 
This group brings the total repatriations from the US this year to 2,246. Of this amount, 700 were charged with drug trafficking. Others served prison terms for murder, robbery and assault, falsification of state documents and travel, rape, arson and kidnapping.
The group arrived on a plane chartered by the U.S. Immigration Service, escorted by six federal agents who handed over the returnees to officials of the Immigration Department and the Drug Control Agency as well as National Police. The ex-convicts had served sentences in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, San Antonio and Texas, among other places
Meanwhile the Director General of Prisons revealed that the Dominican Republic could soon have the third-largest prison population in the region, second only to Haiti and El Salvador.
He reported that the prison population increased by 2,285 inmates in the first four months of the year compared to the same date in 2009. He warned that further increases would see 22 000 prisoners at the end of the year.
The agency outlined that this increase has led to a total of 20,200 inmates in jails.
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