The Senate confirms Julie O. Gómez Gómez at Corrections and Rehabilitation

On August 24, 2026, El Nuevo Día reports that the Senate this Monday confirmed attorney Julie O. Gómez Gómez as secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Nomination confirmed, inform the governor, announced president Thomas Rivera Schatz, who earlier had previewed his support. The piece's dek previews that, at that morning's public hearing, the official tried to avoid answering whether the medical services the prison population receives are the right ones. The full body was truncated when opened. What that URL left in headline, dek, and indexing is copied.

Julie O. Gómez Gómez won the approval after a hearing in which Thomas Rivera Schatz confronted her on medical services for the confined. At first, according to the newspaper, she tried to evade the evaluation. She ended by assuring that health care for the prison population is fully guaranteed. She presented a plan oriented to moral and social rehabilitation and reincorporation. The first phase, which should be completed by December, includes an x-ray of the agency to know its current situation and validate that services are adequate: food and infrastructure. The excerpt has no count of the confined and no budget for that phase. They are not invented.

Other dispatches the same day place Julie O. Gómez Gómez with decades at the Department and mention the Physician Correctional contract litigation and Francisco Quiñones Rivera's departure. Those layers are not complete in El Nuevo Día's excerpt. They are not pasted here as if the newspaper had put them at this URL. What remain are the confirmation, the health hearing, and the December deadline for the x-ray.

On August 17, Metro covered Jenniffer González Colón, Thomas Rivera Schatz, and Carlos Méndez Núñez with 24 nominations for boards, courts, and Justice. Julie O. Gómez Gómez is one of those nomination threads, with its own date and URL. The 24th is not used to rewrite that agenda. It is also not mixed with Power Expectations or IntegraPR, covered the same Monday in other El Nuevo Día pieces.

There is no numeric vote here and no list of senators. Thomas Rivera Schatz announced the approval. A reader who wants the full hearing has the El Nuevo Día URL at the foot. This is not original reporting.

Source: El Nuevo Día. https://www.elnuevodia.com/noticias/legislatura/notas/senado-confirma-a-julie-o-gomez-gomez-como-secretaria-de-correccion-y-rehabilitacion/