Governor Wanda Vázquez Garced granted 31 executive pardons, including 19 in total for those who are no longer convicted. Most of these are people who have already served their sentence, so they can request a clean criminal record. In other cases, they are people who have been in the free community for some time and satisfactorily meet all the conditions imposed by the Parole Board.
While an ex-convict can usually clear their criminal record after five years of serving time, in many of these cases people have shown that they want to improve by completing a college degree or by noticing that they have already been reintegrated into the criminal justice system. world of work. In this way that process is accelerated.
The first executive also granted three lump sums to the minimum so that these people could be evaluated by the Board of Parole, and granted nine conditional pardons.
“These actions were carefully and responsibly evaluated, in accordance with our constitutional authority, and with the benefit of having the perspective from the various positions I held in Puerto Rico’s judicial system. I firmly believe in law and order and that every action has consequences, but I also know that many people have the opportunity and the commitment to rehabilitate and improve themselves, and that is the opportunity I give them today. After several days of carefully evaluating all requests and holding meetings with my team and the Chairman of the Parole Board, I have decided that these cases are worth a chance to demonstrate their rehabilitation, ”said the first supervisor.
Among the leniency programs granted, Ashley M. Torres Feliciano stands out in the form of a conditional pardon. Torres Feliciano was sentenced to 111 years in prison.
“After a thorough analysis of the circumstances of her case, I conditional pardon Ashley M. Torres Feliciano for a term of ten years from the date of signature of this pardon,” the document emphasizes, adding that you must Stay under house arrest so that you can adjust to life outside of prison, and after that, you must adhere to staying in your home from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., as well as not committing any crime or using controlled substances. Once the conditions are met, he can delete his record.
Likewise, Sharelys López Pérez, a nurse accused of sexually assaulting two adolescents under her care in a residential facility of the Administration of Mental Health and Anti-Addiction Services (Assmca), who was sentenced to 15 years in prison on July 30, 2013. First executive issued her a five-year conditional pardon, during which she met restrictions, including staying in her home from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., among other things, that if she disobeyed, the pardon would be revoked.
The governor also granted executive pardon under the modality of parole to Edwin Domínguez Torres, who was sentenced to eight years and one day in prison. Leniency is four years with various conditions, such as failure to communicate, address, or interact, directly or indirectly, or through any means of communication or electronically, with the injured parties or with their families, and remain under house arrest for a term of two years, in addition other restrictions. Determine that any violation of the terms would result in the parole being withdrawn
In addition to these granted leniency programs, the Governor included nine pardons in total which was a correction on conditional pardon granted by former Governor Alejandro García Padilla and which did not have the necessary language, so that once the conditions set were met, it was clarified that it was a full pardon. On this matter, the Parole Board had received a letter from the former president asking for the settlement so that these people could get their files clean now.