Calama Court Orders Gendarmería to Reopen Education and Work Center

Original article: Juzgado de Garantía de Calama ordena a Gendarmería reabrir Centro de Educación y Trabajo

The Calama Court of Guarantees upheld a legal appeal filed on behalf of 27 inmates who were serving sentences at the Ojo de Opache Education and Work Center and were transferred to the Preventive Detention Center on August 8, following Gendarmería’s decision to close the semi-open penal facility.

In the ruling (case number 7079-2026), Judge Mariana Chiang Muñoz accepted the constitutional action after determining that the penitentiary institution acted arbitrarily and illegally, intensifying the conditions for the individuals involved without assessing their particular situations in response to the abandonment of the center by eight