- The Biden administration has sent over $100 million dollars in foreign aid to the Dominican Republic, with some of the aid aimed at correcting the country’s justice system.
- Yet the Dominican Republic’s ruling party has jailed a number of its political opponents in recent years, some of whom remain under “preventive detention,” a system that requires no charges or evidence of crime for imprisonment, according to The Associated Press and local outlet Listen Diario.
- Approximately 70% of all prisoners in the Dominican Republic are currently under preventive detention in prisons that are at 164% capacity, according to the Dominican Justice Initiative.
The Biden administration has sent tens of millions of dollars in foreign aid to the Dominican Republic, a country whose ruling party has imprisoned a number of its political opponents, according to multiple reports and federal data.
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