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Former Cultural Counselor,
the Basque Nationalist Party (PNV)
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In Spain there is
a dispersion policy
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with a certain group of prisoners.
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We did disperse them.
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And the PNV agreed to
a phase of that operation.
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When the ETA prisoners
were held in groups,
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the social pressure that was
exercised in the prisons
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made it impossible
to achieve any reinsertion.
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The ultimate aim
of a prison sentence
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in the Spanish penal legislation
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is still reinsertion.
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It's a different matter
if that aim can't be achieved.
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In that case,
humane criteria demand
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that the prisoners are
brought to the Basque Country.
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A prisoner, whether criminal,
political, Basque, non-Basque,
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has the right to serve his sentence
close to his home area,
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because that is set down
in international law.
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In some cases, they are imposing
additional punishment
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by sending
the prisoners far away,
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and punishing their families too.
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It's up to you.
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If you stop killing,
they'll be brought closer to home.
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Meanwhile, people who committed
horrible crimes,
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and did so
while they were in power,
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are set free or given
greatly reduced sentences.
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Daughter of Xavier Galdeano who
was murdered by the GAL in 1985.
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Pres. of Etxerat (Organization for
bringing prisoners closer to home)
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There are prisoners
who have spent 22 years
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under "maximum surveillance",
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which means 20 hours a day
in their cells
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and 4 hours in the yard.
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I'm going to visit my father.
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In April, he was in prison
19 years.
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For a 40 minute visit,
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we had to spend a whole week
in the Canaries,
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with all the expenses that involves.
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We were doing that for nine years.
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About 115 of them should have
been released by now,