42 officials from Colombia’s National Penitentiary and Prison Institute (INPEC) have been arrested for corruption, revealed the director of the institution to El Tiempo on Sunday. The officials in question were…
Guards at a prison in central Colombia said Tuesday they have captured a messenger pigeon trying to smuggle a light-weight cell phone and a memory stick into their prison. According to a video…
Just before going on summer recess, Colombia’s congress approved a provisional bill to prevent the pending release of some 20,000 crime suspects from Colombia’s over crowded prisons.
Colombia’s congress and interim prosecutor general are bickering about who is responsible for the pending release of at least 14,000 alleged criminals, 2,000 of whom allegedly face charges of sexual…
Government bodies have failed to create more prison space in Colombia and overcrowding is reaching desperate levels, according to local media.
Colombia’s justice system has used preventive detention to keep suspects off the streets during legal proceedings, but a court order and a clogged prosecution may now lead to the exodus of 20,000 crime…
Colombia wants to call in the help of foreign governments and companies to partially privatize a number of prisons to solve an ongoing crisis in the country’s prison system.
Colombian prosecutors are investigating the alleged disappearance of as many as 100 people inside a Bogota prison more than 15 years ago.
A former technology chief executive facing extradition from Colombia to the United States to face securities fraud charges has been moved to a new detention facility after a US federal…