National Penitentiary and Prison Institute
Instituto Nacional Penitenciario y Carcelario
Agency overview
Formed30 December 1992 (1992-12-30)[1]
Preceding agencies
  • General Directorate of Prisons
  • Revolving Fund of the Ministry of Justice
HeadquartersCalle 26 № 27-48
Bogotá, D.C., Colombia
Annual budgetCOP$1,202,174,529,951 (2012)[2]
COP$891,264,671,119 (2013)[3]
COP$938,995,115,725 (2014)[4]
Agency executive
Parent agencyMinistry of Justice and Law
Websiteinpec.gov.co

The National Penitentiary and Prison Institute, INPEC, is the Colombian central government agency responsible for the incarceration and rehabilitation of convicted criminal offenders, and administration of the penitentiary institutions in the country[5]

References

  1. ↑ Colombia, President of (31 December 1992). "Decreto 2160 de 1992" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish) (40, 703). ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  2. ↑ Colombia, Congress of (14 December 2011). "Ley 1485 de 2011" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish) (48, 283): 6. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  3. ↑ Colombia, Congress of (10 December 2012). "Ley 1593 de 2012" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish) (48, 640): 5. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 6 May 2013.
  4. ↑ Colombia, Congress of (11 December 2013). "Ley 1687 de 2014" (PDF). Diario Oficial (in Spanish) (49, 001): 8. ISSN 0122-2112. OCLC 500057889. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
  5. ↑ National Penitentiary and Prison Institute. "Evolución Carcelaria en Colombia y Nacimiento del Instituto Nacional Penitenciario y Carcelario" [Prison Evolution in Colombia and Birth of the National Penitentiary and Prison Institute] (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2012-03-15. Retrieved 2010-11-20.


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