Cartagena prison has only 20 guards for 2,160 prisoners
The Cartagena prison where riots killed one on Sunday is managed by only 20 guards at a time, amid a grave state of overcrowding, reported Caracol Radio Tuesday. According to…
The Cartagena prison where riots killed one on Sunday is managed by only 20 guards at a time, amid a grave state of overcrowding, reported Caracol Radio Tuesday. According to…
The Director Colombia’s prison authority said Tuesday he will resign amid turmoil and overcrowding in the prison system. Colombian radio station La W reported that Gustavo Ricaurte Tapia will stay…
The director of Colombia’s prison service Gustavo Ricaurte Tapia, confirmed during judicial proceedings Monday, that paramilitaries on their way to court visited a relative, after a group for victims of the…
The Colombian prison institute was ordered to award a former inmate approximately $55,000 to compensate for inhumane conditions while he was imprisoned. William Alberto Molina allegedly endured such inhumane conditions…
Prisoners all over Colombia have gone on hunger strike to protest pervasive overcrowding and unbearable conditions. Calls for the resignation of the director of the country’s prison authority rose on…
A Turkish delegation arrived Thursday in Colombia to study how the country electronically surveys prisoners under house arrest, a program managed by the National Institute of Punishment and Imprisonment (INPEC).…
One of three imprisoned Nule group construction tycoons was secretly recorded making death threats against Colombia’s national prison director. In a fit of rage following the removal of special privileges…
Colombia’s National Prison and Penitentiary Institute (INPEC) foiled a massive escape plot in Bogota’s La Modelo, La Picota and Buen Pastor prisons, Colombian media reported Thursday. The mass escape was…
Colombia’s prisons end 2011 with 126,976 inmates, which is a 28% increase compared to last year. According to the country’s prison authority, INPEC, 55,112 people were imprisoned throughout the year…