Caracas Daily Journal: The Commission of Security and Defense of the National Assembly declared itself in permanent session until the Organic Law on Kidnapping & Extortion is sanctioned. The president of the Commission, Rafael Gil Barrios, said on Monday that the commission is working hard with the proposals and suggestions received last week during a public consultation regarding the law.
"We expect to submit the project to a second discussion on Tuesday with all the members of the chamber. That is our goal", Gil said.
The deputy also said that the members of the Commission are in favor of hard punishments for people who take part in extortion, kidnapping and related crimes.
Punishment, he said, includes paying time in maximum security prisons. "There is a full rejection against criminals who deprive people of their liberty by force. The people request the maximum sentence (30 years) to them without any kind of benefit", the deputy added.
Gil added that he is in favor of revising laws linked to crimes in which the criminals get out of jail because of some legal benefit and they go on committing crimes. "We need to overhaul those cases in order to avoid greater damages."
Regarding Congressman Calixto Ortega's proposal to apply life imprisonment, Gill Barrios said: "we support severe sanctions, but in correlation with the penitentiary system regarding its implementation and reinsertion of citizens into society."
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