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Ecuador: prison riots leave 79 dead, including 34 in Cuenca. Gang wars result in beheadings, dismemberments
“This is a human slaughterhouse,” is how a national police captain described the scene as he entered a high security area of Cuenca’s Turi prison following tuesday’s riot. “It is the most terrible thing I have ever witnessed as a police officer.”Ecuador: President declares state of emergency following deadly prison riots
Officials in Ecuador say order has been restored at prisons in three cities, where authorities said at least 75 inmates died in riots between rival gangs. President Lenín Moreno declared the national prison system in a state of emergency and ordered stepped-up security measures. Officials say au…Argentina: en cumplimiento de un fallo de la CorteIDH, el SPF aprueba un nuevo protocolo de traslados de personas privadas de libertad
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Venezuela: detenidos de Policarirubana piden descongestionamiento
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Venezuela: familiares de presos de Polimiranda deben llevar agua a diario para aseo y consumo
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Irán: recluso sometido a 60 azotes y en riesgo de amputación tras intento de suicidio
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Bielorrusia: las autoridades atacan a menores de edad para reprimir la disidencia
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Rusia: las cárceles de Moscú, colmadas de seguidores de Navalny
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Ecuador: violentos motines dejan más de 75 muertos en tres cárceles
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Équateur : des mutineries dans trois prisons font 79 morts
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Malaysia: stop sending MCO offenders to prison, consider other alternative measures
With Malaysia already facing an impending prison overcrowding issue where close to 70,000 are currently serving jail terms for various offences across the country, lawyer Sangeet Kaur Deo urged the government to stop sending movement control order (MCO) offenders to prison as it will only worsen th…
Zimbabwe: prison inmates urged to embrace Covid-19 vaccine
PRISON inmates have been encouraged to embrace the Covid-19 vaccine whose rollout programme that has been approved by the government. Zimbabwe this week received 200 000 doses of the Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine from China whose roll out begins today. The Vaccination programme has an overall target o…
République démocratique du Congo : comment lutter contre la malnutrition et les maladies dans les prisons ?
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Ireland: €3.7m spent on medicine for prison inmates over the last two years
More than €3.7m has been spent by the Irish Prison Service on medications for inmates over the past two years. The bill at a single prison can be in excess of €50,000 a month, according to the data, with costs highest at the Midlands Prison in Co Laois. The Irish Prison Service said many of those s…