{"id":492315,"date":"2025-11-24T15:48:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T19:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/pretrial-detainee-dies-in-new-city-courthouse-jail-family-denounces-negligence\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T16:04:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:04:25","slug":"pretrial-detainee-dies-in-new-city-courthouse-jail-family-denounces-negligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/pretrial-detainee-dies-in-new-city-courthouse-jail-family-denounces-negligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Pretrial detainee dies in New City Courthouse jail; family denounces negligence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Santo Domingo.- <\/strong>A pretrial detainee was found dead in the jail of the Palace of Justice of Ciudad Nueva. The deceased was identified as <strong>Alexander P\u00e9rez Mart\u00ednez<\/strong>, 25 years old, who had been in detention for about 15 days, accused of alleged sexual assault and robbery.<\/p>\n\n\nHis brother, <strong>Rafael P\u00e9rez Mart\u00ednez<\/strong>, assured that Alexander died because of an illness he had contracted in prison and that, according to his denunciation, was aggravated due to <strong>lack of medical attention, mistreatment and negligence<\/strong> on the part of the health personnel and the authorities of the precinct.\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>You may be interested in<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/Polic\u00eda Nacional reporta 75 detenidos en las \u00faltimas 24 horas durante operativos a nivel nacional\">http:\/\/Polic\u00eda Nacional reporta 75 detenidos en las \u00faltimas 24 horas durante operativos a nivel nacional<\/a><\/p>\n\n\nRafael stated that his brother&#8217;s detention was &#8220;an evil deed&#8221;, insisting that there were no grounds to keep him locked up. He even pointed out that during the days of arrest <strong>no one came forward to formalize a complaint<\/strong>, which \u2014he asserts\u2014 casts doubt on the legitimacy of the process.\n\nThe deceased&#8217;s brother explained that Alexander had communicated his deteriorated health from the cell, alleging that <strong>he was not receiving adequate medication or food<\/strong>. He added that the treatments prescribed by the doctors had to be brought by the family members, which, in his opinion, shows a serious neglect by the prison authorities.\n\nRafael found out about the death when he went to the detention center yesterday, located on the fourth floor of the Palace of Justice. He said that, although the authorities knew his brother was &#8220;very ill,&#8221; they did not inform him in a timely manner about the seriousness of the case.\n\nAlexander&#8217;s family is demanding a <strong>thorough investigation<\/strong> to clarify the circumstances of his death and determine if there was responsibility on the part of the prison or medical staff in the handling of his health condition.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santo Domingo.- A pretrial detainee was found dead in the jail of the Palace of Justice of Ciudad Nueva. The deceased was identified as Alexander P\u00e9rez Mart\u00ednez, 25 years old, who had been in detention for about 15 days, accused of alleged sexual assault and robbery. His brother, Rafael P\u00e9rez Mart\u00ednez, assured that Alexander died [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":492316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[41228],"class_list":["post-492315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-palace-of-justice"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-244z","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/646c0f7e4b321.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/11\/646c0f7e4b321.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}