Judge orders transfer of 2,600 Bogota prisoners to tackle overcrowding
A Bogota judge ordered Colombia’s national prison authority INPEC to transfer over 2,630 prisoners from the capital’s notoriously overcrowded La Modelo prison.
A Bogota judge ordered Colombia’s national prison authority INPEC to transfer over 2,630 prisoners from the capital’s notoriously overcrowded La Modelo prison.
Nearly 100 prisoners are being kept in “inhumane conditions” in the basement of a government building in Medellin after judicial rulings closed the doors of prisons in the region due…
A Colombian drug trafficker waiting to be extradited to the United States was accused on Sunday of threatening his prison guards. Camilo Torres Martinez, alias “Fritanga,” threatened to kill his…
A trained messenger pigeon on Tuesday was caught trying to enter a maximum security prison to deliver a package to an inmate. According to Police Commander Luis Enrique Roa, a package…
The ombudsman of Colombia’s third largest city, Cali, said Thursday the city’s biggest prison with 5,830 inmates is living through a “humanitarian crisis” due to appalling sanitary conditions and overcrowding.
Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos on Wednesday inaugurated the first country-wide prison monitoring center. The Strategic Prison Information Center will allow authorities to monitor in real-time 40 prisons from across Colombia.…
Six agricultural penal colonies for imprisoned indigenous people and peasant farmers are being drawn up by the Colombian government, INPEC announced Tuesday. To ease chronic overcrowding and poor conditions in…
Colombia’s prison authority said Monday it has thwarted a prison break by high-profile drug trafficking suspects in the northeast of the country. According to prison authority INPEC, two imprisoned drug…
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…