(5 Jun 2025)
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Bogotá, Colombia – June 5, 2025
1. Various of inmates cleaning up public park
2. Colonel Daniel Gutierrez, director of the National Penitentiary and Prison Institute, INPEC, speaking with inmates
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Colonel Daniel Gutierrez, director of the National Penitentiary and Prison Institute:
“Through this work, they can reduce their sentences and so we are generating that reduction in their sentence through this activity. It is an activity that we are doing throughout the country. We are impacting more or less 120 cities with approximately 1,500 people deprived of their freedom who are doing this on a massive scale in all the parks and cities of Colombia."
4. Various of inmates cleaning park
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gloria Alzate, prison inmate:
“I am grateful and happy here. My tears now are no longer tears of sadness, as they were before in prison. They are tears of joy and happiness because there are still people who believe in second chances."
6. Various of inmates cleaning park and painting surfaces
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gerber Alirio Acosta, prison inmate:
“This is our second chance. The first time we were in Pelsilvania Park (a public park in Bogota), where we did very similar work, but only those of us from the Model Prison (a prison in Bogota) went, only 20 people."
8. Inmates cleaning
9. Police guarding bus
10. Inmates inside buses
11. Buses leaving area
STORYLINE:
A group of inmates from medium and high security prisons gathered in a park in central Bogotá on Thursday, sprucing up the surroundings as part of their community service.
The 60 inmates are part of a programme that aims to get them to give back to society while working to reduce their sentences.
"It is an activity that we are doing throughout the country," said Colonel Daniel Gutierrez, director of the National Penitentiary and Prison Institute.
"We are impacting more or less 120 cities with approximately 1,500 people deprived of their freedom who are doing this on a massive scale in all the parks and cities of Colombia."
Prisoners involved in the programme said they were grateful for the opportunity.
“I am grateful and happy here. My tears now are no longer tears of sadness, as they were before in prison. They are tears of joy and happiness because there are still people who believe in second chances," said Gloria Alzate who was sentenced to 15 years in prison for fraud.
The security of Gutierrez, inmates and guards was a priority Thursday at the park after officials said threats were received from an inmate who was transferred from a prison for extradition to the United States, where he is wanted on drug trafficking charges.
In Colombia, such threats are taken with caution, especially after the murder of the director of La Modelo prison last year as he was travelling in a vehicle in the northwest of Bogotá.
AP Video shot by Marko Alvarez
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