Honduran President Xiomara Castro has entrusted the Navy Police with full management of the nation’s penitentiary system, efficient from July 1.

This determination comes within the wake of a jail riot that claimed the lives of 46 inmates on the Nationwide Ladies’s Penitentiary for Social Adaptation (PNFAS), positioned north of Tegucigalpa.

Concurrently, President Castro has dismissed the members of the Board of Management of the prisons, together with the director, Julissa Villanueva, who will resume her duties because the undersecretary (vice-minister) of Safety within the space of Police Affairs.

Moreover, the federal government has prolonged the State of Exception to different components of the nation and extended its period.

The Government has requested the Judiciary to grant different preventive measures to all incarcerated girls within the PNFAS who haven’t been convicted, in addition to to these affected by terminal diseases.

In response to the jail tragedy within the Támara valley, the federal government has declared three days of nationwide mourning.

Festive occasions commemorating the anniversary of the June 28, 2009 coup d’état in opposition to former President Manuel Zelaya (2006-2009) have been suspended.

The official assertion clarifies that solely actions honoring the victims of the constitutional disaster will happen, together with the opening of the Museum of Reminiscence and Reconciliation in Honduras.