Mendoza: Government will have to pay a prisoner for 20 years of work

The Supreme Court of Justice of Mendoza determined this Tuesday that the provincial government will have to pay one of its prisoners for 20 years of work in the prisons for which he spent between 1996 and 2016. Although there is no calculated amount, it is known that it will include interest for the work done in four different prisons. The prisoner was identified as José Aníbal Molina, who has been released since 2016. Since then, he claimed for…

The Supreme Court of Justice of Mendoza ruled in favor of José Aníbal Molina, a former intern who worked for two decades in different prisons in the province, and ordered the Mendoza government to pay him the corresponding assets for the services provided between 1996 and 2016. Molina, who regained his freedom in 2016, began his claim shortly after leaving the prison system. In 2018 he submitted a request for an early dispatch—an informal reques…

The former detainee argued that he worked in the wicker shop, in yard cleaning and agricultural work in different prisons.