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Ecuador: prison deaths climb again despite Noboa security strategy, data shows
After hundreds of Ecuadorean incarcerated people were killed in prison riots in 2021 and 2022, President Daniel Noboa made restoring order in jails one of the central pillars of his security strategy when he took office in 2023.
Source: The Straits Times (16/02/2026)