Colombia’s Constitutional Court has claimed that special prisons built specifically for members of indigenous communities are necessary so as to not violate their rights as a protected group, El Espectador reported Wednesday.
Colombia’s prison authorities, also known as INPEC, have declared that there are over 2,000 inmates with mental illnesses throughout Colombia’s 138 prisons, according to Colombian local media.
Police in Bogota are on high alert after two ex-paramilitary prisoners escaped from the city’s La Picota jail early Thursday morning, reported Colombian media. One of the escaped prisoners is Dumar…
One inmate was killed and nineteen injured on Monday when a riot broke out in a penitentiary in the south-east Colombian city of Cali. The riot took place in the…