Colombia prison executive resigns over threats
The under director of Colombia’s prison authority has resigned over alleged death threats by an extradited commander of the neo-paramilitary “Urabeños.”
The under director of Colombia’s prison authority has resigned over alleged death threats by an extradited commander of the neo-paramilitary “Urabeños.”
An alleged FARC attack which lead to the death of four prison guards and one inmate in south Colombia “undermines” the chances of an ongoing peace process to succeed, the…
Five prison authority officials were killed in an attack attributed to Colombia’s largest rebel group FARC in the south of the country on Tuesday.
Colombia’s prison authorities, backed by the government, on Monday declared an emergency over inhumane conditions in its penitentiaries to free an emergency budget needed to improve living conditions of inmates.
A Bogota judge ordered Colombia’s national prison authority INPEC to transfer over 2,630 prisoners from the capital’s notoriously overcrowded La Modelo 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.
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…
Captured drug lord “Fritanga,” a prominent member of the neo-paramilitary group Los Urabeños, was allegedly collaborating with the people responsible for guarding him. In a letter addressed to General Gustavo Ricaurte, director…
Colombia’s prison authority said Monday it has thwarted a prison break by high-profile drug trafficking suspects in the northeast of the country. According to prison authority INPEC, two imprisoned drug…