A new security system is installed in the prisons of Ecuador

The Government of Ecuador has installed a new security system in the country’s 36 prisons, valued at just over US$1.14 million, equipped with artificial intelligence and facial recognition.

“Ecuador has a new control and monitoring system for the 36 penitentiary centers,” reported the president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso, in a brief publication on his official profile on the social network Twitter.

In said message, the president has confirmed that this Tuesday he has been verifying the operation of said system which, he has influenced, will enable the authorities to act “immediately in the face of any disturbance.”

The General Secretariat of Communication of the Ecuadorian Presidency has confirmed the cost of the investment and has added that two command and control centers have been set up in the cities of Quito and Guayaquil, both the scene of the latest prison riots.

The director of the National Comprehensive Care Service for Persons Deprived of Liberty (SNAI), Guillermo Rodríguez, has celebrated that, thanks to the revolutionary system, the behavior of inmates can be anticipated, evaluated and supervised.

This announcement comes just a few days after a prison in the capital of Ecuador was the scene of the eleventh prison massacre so far this year, due to which more than 400 prisoners have lost their lives.

With information from Gaceta

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