Protest
Central America and the Caribbean
Protest
Violence
Guatemala
Une mutinerie a fait 13 morts et 10 blessés lundi dans une prison proche de la capitale du Guatemala, a annoncé le ministre de l’Intérieur Francisco Rivas.
Material conditions
Protest
Romania
Detainees in three Romanian prisons have protested against conditions, setting light to clothes and refusing food.
The protest began in the high-security prison of Iasi this week where prison authorities said inmates set light to a cell. The protest spread to two other prisons.
Central America and the Caribbean
Protest
Overcrowding
Haiti
The former French naval officer looks down from the walls of Haiti’s National Penitentiary at the mass of prisoners crowded in the yards below and delivers a simple verdict.