Guatemala
Seen in the press
Read our selection of press reports about this country. This is a short description of prison conditions on a national scale. It gives an account of the preceding year’s events.
Guatemala: el país tiene la tasa de ocupación más alta en cárceles de Latinoamérica
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Guatemala: sangriento motín en cárcel de Guatemala deja siete reos decapitados
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Guatemala: Exdirector de cárceles preso por corrupción muere por COVID-19
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Guatemala: el presidente Giammattei realizará cambios en las cárceles
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Guatemala: justicia suspende polémica reducción de penas de cárcel
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Guatemala: en 10 años creció en 300% la prisión preventiva
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New Guatemala prison facility readies female convicts’ return to society
Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales and the US assistant secretary of state for the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, William Brownfield, inaugurated Monday the penitentiary management model’s first rehabilitation and reintegration center for some 160 female inmates.Guatemala : Attempted Uprising Highlights Lack of Control in Guatemala Prisons
A prison riot in Guatemala highlights a broken system that continues to suffer from overcrowding, rising violence and a lack of organizational leadership – all of which likely exacerbates the nation’s gang problems. The riot occurred on October 6 at the high-security Boquerón prison in the Santa Ro…