The Minister for Justice, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, has announced an up to ten year prison increase on current terms for serious crimes. It will affect sexual crimes, serious crimes where violence or intimidation were used and drug trafficking. It could also apply to those a previous record of serious crimes, or those who are repeat offenders. Gallardón is calling the new measure ‘custodia de seguridad’. It means that a person’s liberty can continue to be lost after the prison term is over, although this could be a more attenuated regime. Also in the new legislation is the concept of ‘reversible life in prison’ for the most serious and socially rejected crimes, such as rape, torture and killing a child. The Minister made the announcement today, Monday, after meeting the father of the 17 year old Sevilla girl, Marta del Castillo, who was killed in 2009 and whose body has still not been found. He was given a text by Marta’s father which asked him to comply with the election manifesto and the promises made during the campaign, because ‘society cannot consent to more broken promises’.
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