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...As part of the plan, the government built what would be the world’s biggest prison by population for 40,000 inmates. It at present houses 12,000 inmates who subsist on rice, beans and tortillas....
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...Noboa has declared a two-month state of emergency with nightly curfews....
...Another jailbreak took place on Monday night in Riobamba, in the central Andes, with 32 inmates escaping, including Fabricio Colón, a leader of the Los Lobos gang....
...The government has shared photographs of inmates, shirtless and closely lined up on prison forecourts....
...state of the justice system....
...On Sunday authorities declared a 72-hour state of emergency and nightly curfew in the hope of quelling the recent squall of violence that UN officials say has displaced 15,000 people....
...Haiti’s government has imposed a 72-hour state of emergency and night curfew after gangs that control swaths of the capital Port-au-Prince over-ran two prisons and freed thousands of inmates....
...Marta appears as a ghostly figure in a black dress, her fellow inmates all doubles of herself, so that the Auschwitz scenes become shadows of dreadful memory, never explicit. And it works....
...Taylor attributed some of the issues to how slowly the system had opened up after inmates were isolated during the Covid-19 pandemic: “Prisons are very good at locking down....
...The government has published images of inmates sat tightly together in prison yards as part of its crackdown....
...President Daniel Noboa declared a 60-day nationwide state of emergency, which includes a nightly curfew and the authorisation of soldiers to assist in quelling prison violence after riots broke out in six...
...In his 2022 book Orange Collar Labor, the academic Michael Gibson-Light uses the testimonies of inmates and staff to describe a prison system that, in part because of financial incentives for private operators...
...Over 158 prison guards and staff have been taken hostage by inmates in seven prisons, vehicles and buildings around the country have been set ablaze, and at least 15 people, including police officers, have...
...Some 15,000 people have been displaced by the recent attacks, the UN has said, while 3,800 inmates escaped from two prisons in jailbreaks this month....
...In November 1972, Roger Bontems, a 36-year-old peasants’ son from the Vosges region of eastern France, was guillotined for his part in a prison escape during which a fellow inmate cut the throats of a nurse...
...Turnell was able to monitor the state of the wider economy while inside....
...The Russian president, who state-backed polls forecast winning a record 82 per cent of the vote, has barely bothered to campaign....
...Already this year Venezuela has arrested Rocío San Miguel, a prominent opposition military analyst and lawyer, while members of her family briefly also went missing....
...After the jailbreak of a powerful drug lord in early January, dozens of prison guards were held hostage by inmates while bandits took over a TV studio live on air....
...More than 6,800 Palestinians are at present imprisoned by Israel for various security offences, according to the Israel Prison Service....
...On the streets of San Salvador, billboards and posters of candidates are limited, as Bukele — whose TikTok followers exceed the total population of El Salvador — moved the election campaign online....
...Male prison guards are a risk, so are other female inmates. And if trans women are placed in male prisons, they “will be raped and will be hurt”....
...On a brighter note, I was delighted to read about the new Inside Literary Prize, which will be voted on by a jury of prison inmates around the country....
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