43 youths flee Bogota prison after arson and riot
After setting fire to their dormitories, 43 minors were able to flee from a youth detention center in the south of Bogota, according to local media.
After setting fire to their dormitories, 43 minors were able to flee from a youth detention center in the south of Bogota, according to local media.
At least 5,000 Colombian inmates have gone on hunger strike across the country to protest overcrowding and poor conditions, according to local media.
A woman from Central Colombia, sentenced to 39 years for murdering her stepson, is apparently not in prison, but serving her supposed sentence on Caribbean beaches and at fancy parties.
Colombia’s prison guards announced on Wednesday that more prison workers are joining the strike that has kept prison doors closed to new inmates for weeks.
Prison guards in 109 of Colombia’s 138 prisons have decided to refuse the entry and exit of (ex-) convicts after 80 days of protest to demand more money and better…
More than one-third of Colombian prisoners – 35% – have not been convicted of a crime, according to local media.
The Medellin office in charge of helping the reintegration of demobilized paramilitary fighters and commanders opened its doors to show how recently released ex-paramilitaries are shown the way back to…
Members of the ruling coalition in Colombia’s congress on Tuesday proposed dissolving the national prison authority INPEC amid accumulating allegations of widespread corruption and overcrowding.
Colombia’s Prosecutor-General’s Office has launched an investigation into the deaths of three inmates caused by a homemade alcoholic drink at a maximum security prison, local media reported on Tuesday.