Inmates’ fears that prison guards are not doing enough to prevent coronavirus outbreaks inside Colombia’s notoriously overcrowded and unhygienic prisons turned violent on Saturday. According to media, violence broke out…
Colombia’s prison authority has said it could move a key witness against former President Alvaro Uribe out of his protected cell block, triggering concerns about his safety. The director of…
The director of Colombia’s prison authority and the director of Bogota’s largest prison for women were sacked on Wednesday after the mouth-dropping prison break of a congresswoman. The escape of…
A former congresswoman escaped prison while on medical leave, Colombia’s prison authority said Tuesday. Former senator-elect Aida Merlano was sentenced to 15 years in prison for election fraud last month,…
The director and deputy of the Combita maximum security prison in central Colombia were suspended amid investigations into the homicide of the security chief of the penitentiary. Until Thursday, Colonel…
Two alleged FARC guerrillas were able to escape the maximum security wing of Colombia’s largest prison, allegedly after a corrupt prison guard gave them permission to buy liquor. The prisoners…
Forty-two inmates were allegedly injured after a prison search turned into riots in the Bellavista prison north of Colombia’s second largest city Medellin on Thursday. Prison rights defender Jorge Carmona…
42 officials from Colombia’s National Penitentiary and Prison Institute (INPEC) have been arrested for corruption, revealed the director of the institution to El Tiempo on Sunday. The officials in question were…
Colombia’s Constitutional Court on Monday gave the the government three years to adopt measures to end an ongoing humanitarian crisis in prisons, many of which are overcrowded.