Less than a month ago, the two prisoners who escaped from prison 27 in Sierra Chica had been placed in a pavilion of that prison that has an open regime. That is, with minimal security measures even if they had been convicted of serious crimes.
The passage through these units without severe restrictions in the controls is the step prior to obtaining freedom, conditional or definitive. And the requirement that Justice requires to grant the benefit is to have good grades in the record of behavior.
Cristian Sosa Mazurik (23) and Matías Joaquín Sánchez Honores (27) spent more than four years in a strict regime and obtained the "pass" to this unit where the convicts who are about to leave or have good behavior are housed.
They were installed in cell No. 1 of pavilion 2, open sector 1 in the first week of May. Near that place is the most famous detainee of Penitentiary Unit 27: the multiple murderer Carlos Eduardo Robledo Puch (71), who has been imprisoned for more than 50 years and is now under that regime in the prison complex that is in the center of the Province, near the city of Olavarría.
Cristian Sosa, one of the two prisoners who escaped from the Sierra Chica prison.
Sosa Mazurik, was detained since August 2019 for two crimes: carrying a weapon of war and aggravated robbery by the use of a firearm. He was convicted by the Court in the courts of Mercedes. His prison tour was under the responsibility of Execution Court No. 2, which authorized the transfer on April 3 of this year.
His sentence was due to be completed in February 2026. According to judicial sources, he was eligible for parole. Now, that prerogative would be lost by this evasion.
Sánchez Honores was imprisoned since June 2018 for attempted simple homicide, in a case that was instructed in Lomas de Zamora. He was sentenced to 8 years and 6 months. He would have ended his debt to Justice in May 2026. "I was just a few months away from parole." His file was left in the hands of the Court of Execution No. 4 of the Judicial Department of Lomas de Zamora.
Sosa and Sanchez escaped on Wednesday while doing recreation in the Sierra Chica prison, according to sources in the case.
The Buenos Aires Penitentiary Service (SPB) says that there was no "escape" because they are not controlled in that condition granted by the Justice. "When the regime broke (did not escape) the inmates, from the SPB the alert was immediately given to the Police so that a recapture operation is implemented," they said in the agency.
And he clarified that inmates who serve "the last stage of the sentence" are referred to this unit, according to Article 121 of the Buenos Aires Penal Execution Law. That regulation establishes that "armed prison personnel cannot be assigned to internal security and that only prison guards are authorized in the perimeter," they said in the SPB.
"The dependencies of the open regime will have housing characteristics that guarantee an adequate level of privacy, lacking the following security measures: uniformed armed guard, perimeter walls, bars or other forms of containment," they clarified in the provincial control force.
The prisoners left in a Toyota Hilux van. It was a voluntary decision, because they had no resistance. The police were immediately notified and began a lockdown operation to recapture the convicts. As of Thursday, both remain fugitives and are intensely sought. This Thursday, a neighbor of Saladillo reported that one of them might have wanted to enter his house. It is not confirmed that they are Sosa and Sanchez, the escapees from Sierra Chica.
The SPB has five open-regime units. They operate in Olmos (Unit No. 26); Gorina (No. 12); Baradero (No. 11), Alvear (No. 14) and Sierra Chica (No. 27).
The one that housed the two who left on Wednesday and Robledo Puch was inaugurated on September 24, 1993. It has training workshops in micro-enterprises such as waste separation and treatment course, vermiculture, organic gardening, breeding of laying chickens, ducks, sheep and pigs, among other agricultural activities, according to the SPB. The entire population (about 200) of inmates is included among maintenance work, production workshops and job training courses. In addition, there are educational venues: Primary School for Adults No. 701 and secondary school for Middle School No. 5.
In the province there are more than 50 thousand people deprived of liberty housed in the prison system. According to the latest records managed by human rights organizations, just over 1,000 are in these open or semi-open regimes.
La Plata. Correspondent
MG
See also
