Colombia’s prison chief ‘received 400 death threats’
The director of Colombia’s prison authority said Thursday he has received more than 400...
Tag: Gustavo Adolfo Ricaurte
‘Humanitarian crisis’ in southwest Colombia prison
The ombudsman of Colombia’s third largest city, Cali, said Thursday the city’s biggest prison with 5,830 inmates is living through a “humanitarian crisis” due to appalling sanitary conditions and overcrowding. The...
‘Over 3,000 guerrillas incarcerated’: Prison Director
Colombia’s departing Director of the National Institute of Penitentiaries and Prisons [INPEC] on Tuesday revealed that there are over 3,000 guerrillas in prisons either convicted or being investigated for political crimes....
Serial rapist and murderer ‘The Beast’ will not go free: Prison director
The director of Colombia’s prison authority INPEC has dismissed fears that one of the world’s worst serial killers, dubbed “The Beast,” will be released from prison any time soon. Luis Alfredo Garavito...
