South America
South America
Protest
Violence
Brazil
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South America
Health
Torture
Violence
Uruguay
Prologue by Alvaro Garcé, first Parliamentary Commissioner for the Prison System
#VotoPreso - A party where prisoners are not invited
Analysis
Opinion
South America
Access to legal rights
Justice
Chile
Chileans are preparing to vote for the second round of the 2017 presidential elections this coming December 17. Country with one of the highest incarceration rates in Latin America, the vote of its prison population can weigh heavily in an election that is likely to be tight.
South America
Material conditions
Colombia
Local sources have informed us of a disturbing situation in the Jamundí prison complex.
Inmates in the women’s section have not had access to running water since the night of Thursday, 14 September. We have also learned that they were denied access to telephones until Sunday 17 September, thereby m…