The Colombian government has uncovered numerous costly flaws in several high profile new prisons built during the previous Uribe administration, La W Radio reported Wednesday. The government estimates that the…
Former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe has continued to maintain the innocence of ex-Agriculture Minister Andres Felipe Arias, implicated in the major ministry scandal regarding the misallocation of government funds. In…
With a projected 20,000 more inmates this year than last, the Colombia’s prison authority is calling for the construction of more prisons, Caracol Radio reported Friday. Director of the prison authority…
A pigeon loaded down with drugs was found trying to enter a prison in the northeast Colombian city of Bucaramanga, police said Tuesday. “Agents saw the animal attempting to cross…
An innocent 50-year-old Colombian man has been arrested many times over the last decade because he has the misfortune to share a name with FARC guerrilla Bernardo Mosquera, alias “El…
Although it might appear a less than glamorous home for Colombian women, El Buen Pastor prison in Bogota hosts an annual beauty contest for prisoners as part of its rehabilitation…
The U.S. government presented a plan designed to make it easier for Colombian judicial authorities to access extradited paramilitaries being held in U.S. prisons, in order to facilitate victim reparation in Colombia’s…
Sex-starved Colombian inmates will be disappointed by a new State Council order banning pornography from prisons, reports El Tiempo. The council ruled that, while each inmate has the right to…
Donkeys don’t make the best get-away vehicles, as robbers discovered in the coastal Colombian city of Barranquilla. The thoughtless thieves abandoned their four-legged accomplice, who took a hit for the…