The Ministry of Interior has clarified on Monday that its policy of incentives for the concession of the third degree will not affect in any case members of the terrorist organization ETA. Specifically, as an official spokeswoman for Prisons explained to this newspaper, the internal order in which these instructions are collected "does not refer to progressions from second to third grade, but to executive classifications, that is, internal classifications that are initially classified in third degree".

In this way, as they point out from the Interior, the dynamics that the Department directed by Fernando Grande-Marlaska wants to carry out to encourage third grades would only affect "new" prisoners, and not ETAs, contrary to what this writer wrote. journalist, who did not interpret the Interior version correctly. ETA inmates who are not already in third grade would be in the grade progression phase and, according to Interior's explanation, will not be affected by this instruction, revealed this Monday by this newspaper.

This newspaper has published an internal order of the Ministry of the Interior, in the penitentiary field, to promote concessions of the third degree concessions to the managers of the prisons. This journalist mistakenly linked this situation with the prisoners of ETA and with the current dynamics of Interior of degree progressions of the terrorists.

Grande-Marlaska wants to encourage the approval of this prison benefit in an expansive manner among its managers. Therefore, it has been transferred so that this type of concessions, proposed by the treatment boards of the prisons and that have the approval of the management of the centers, receive special treatment when the annual productivity is distributed, so that The centers with the highest third grade qualifications are approved and the management teams of the same are included in the distribution.

This is stated in the service order issued to all the directors of the centers under the title "Productivity program linked to performance and quality of service for the management of the centers", signed by Eugenio Arribas, deputy director general of Human Resources of Penitentiary Institutions

From the Ministry of Interior, an official spokeswoman for Prisons downplayed this guideline. He said that it is within the plans announced by the Secretary General of Prisons, which, among other initiatives aimed at reintegration, seek an increase in the percentage of third-degree concession, currently at 17%. They seek to match the Nordic countries, with figures of 25%. And remember that, in any case, the last word is always the courts.

"It is necessary to introduce an organizational culture that enhances the fulfillment of the objectives and promotes the use of managerial action techniques. Therefore, it is considered appropriate that the managerial productivity program linked to performance and service quality is subject to objectives and management indicators of special relevance, "the Prisons instruction begins.

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