Caracas, 08 Feb. AVN.- Venezuelan Minister of Prison Affairs, Iris Varela, informed that a program named "Llego La Chamba" (or Work Got In, in Spanish) begins Wednesday, which consists of generating productive jobs for inmates in the country.

Minister Varela said the information last Tuesday after a Cabinet meeting held in the Miraflores Presidential Palace, in Caracas.

Mrs Varela explained that the mentioned plan will be carried out through blacksmiths workshops, bakeries and agricultural production existing in prison centers, which will be boosted for that purpose.

She also highlighted other plans developed in Venezuelan jails since the diagnosis taken about general problems among the imprisoned population, study which began on September and concluded on December 2011.

On the basis of that study, Varela said they undertook a plan named Cayapa, aimed at fighting procedural delay. This program is carried out with the participation of all actors of Venezuela's justice system, as the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, the Public Ministry, the Public Defense and officers of the Prison Ministry.

"We are facing the situation in prisons very optimistically," she added, at the tome she said that they are implementing, for the last three weeks, the Plan Cambote, aimed at repairing prison infrastructures with inmates as the working force.

The Minister added: "It works to keep them working and fight idleness in prison centers. Right now, we are implementing the Plan Cambote and there are 695 inmates involved, one per region."

"In each region, one prison center was chosen for the first phase, so as to start working. It means that for the second, third and fourth stages we will be gradually joining other centers, according to the plan," Minister Varela said.