Colombia’s justice minister has come up with a major judicial reform, which seeks to combat the country’s decades-long prison crisis. The judicial reform seeks to combat overcrowding in prisons, which…
Dramatic overcrowding and sub-human living conditions in Colombia’s prison system is the result of the country’s failing justice system, according to think tank Dejusticia. The “heavy-handed” judicial approach, whereby increasingly…
Colombia’s public prosecutor suspended all pending arrest warrants of its office in the country’s second largest city, Medellin, accusing the national prison authority of failing to curb overcrowding. According to…