Colombia court gives government ultimatum to solve prison crisis
Colombia’s Constitutional Court on Monday gave the the government three years to adopt measures to end an ongoing humanitarian crisis in prisons, many of which are overcrowded.
Colombia’s Constitutional Court on Monday gave the the government three years to adopt measures to end an ongoing humanitarian crisis in prisons, many of which are overcrowded.
After setting fire to their dormitories, 43 minors were able to flee from a youth detention center in the south of Bogota, according to local media.
After a year of strikes by prisoners and guards alike in protest of dangerous conditions and human rights violations, Colombia’s ombudsman prepared a report on the nation’s most overcrowded penitentiaries.
A woman from Central Colombia, sentenced to 39 years for murdering her stepson, is apparently not in prison, but serving her supposed sentence on Caribbean beaches and at fancy parties.
Colombia’s prison guards announced on Wednesday that more prison workers are joining the strike that has kept prison doors closed to new inmates for weeks.
Prison guards in 109 of Colombia’s 138 prisons have decided to refuse the entry and exit of (ex-) convicts after 80 days of protest to demand more money and better…
A convicted embezzler of millions in state funds has turned Colombia’s most important high security prison into his private disco with live music and smuggled rum, reported magazine Semana on Sunday.
Members of the ruling coalition in Colombia’s congress on Tuesday proposed dissolving the national prison authority INPEC amid accumulating allegations of widespread corruption and overcrowding.
Colombia’s Prosecutor-General’s Office has launched an investigation into the deaths of three inmates caused by a homemade alcoholic drink at a maximum security prison, local media reported on Tuesday.