Central America and the Caribbean
Central America and the Caribbean
Guatemala
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Central America and the Caribbean
Panama
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Central America and the Caribbean
Haiti
A guard at a Haiti prison is suspected of helping 173 inmates escape from a prison over the weekend.
Central America and the Caribbean
Mexico
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Central America and the Caribbean
Protest
Haiti
Scores of inmates from a Haitian prison escaped Saturday after killing an officer and stealing weapons, authorities said. Judge Henry Claude Louis-Jean said others were injured in the prison break that occurred in Arcahaie, a coastal town about 50 kilometers north of Haiti’s capital.
Central America and the Caribbean
Mexico
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Central America and the Caribbean
Panama
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Central America and the Caribbean
Guatemala
A prison riot in Guatemala highlights a broken system that continues to suffer from overcrowding, rising violence and a lack of organizational leadership – all of which likely exacerbates the nation’s gang problems.
The riot occurred on October 6 at the high-security Boquerón prison in the Santa Ro…
Central America and the Caribbean
Panama
On an islet of the Pacific there is a maximum security prison that has become the focus of an intense controversy in the country due to the alleged violation of human rights of their prisoners. Even the IACHR has played a leading role with the issuance of a precautionary measure in favor of six pri…
Central America and the Caribbean
Mexico
Mexico’s New Penal Justice System or Nuevo Sistema de Justicia Penal (NSJP), an ambitious judicial reform originally passed in 2008, came into effect in June 2016. The most widely reported aspects of the NSJP are the oral proceedings and the adoption of a process similar to the one used in the Unit…
Central America and the Caribbean
Honduras
Desayunar a las 8:00 de la mañana, encerrados en una celda conformada con pequeñas y asfixiantes paredes y sin recibir los rayos del sol son unos de los tantos cambios sufridos por los reos de mayor peligrosidad que fueron trasladados el pasado lunes a la cárcel de máxima seguridad en el departamen…
Central America and the Caribbean
Costa Rica
Casi 15 años después de la crítica del Comité contra la Tortura de Naciones Unidas, Costa Rica ha decidido clausurar de manera definitiva los 44 espacios carcelarios conocidos como Las Tumbas, en mitad de la mayor cárcel de Costa Rica, llamada La Reforma. La medida es el más reciente de los pasos d…
Central America and the Caribbean
Haiti
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Central America and the Caribbean
Guatemala
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Central America and the Caribbean
Panama
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Central America and the Caribbean
Mexico
Très jeune, David Guzman a commencé à se droguer et à voler. Mais, après cinq ans derrière les barreaux, ce Mexicain de 34 ans, condamné pour homicide, semble apaisé lorsqu’il tatoue cette pièce en cuir qui deviendra bientôt un sac de luxe.
Dans la prison mixte de Tulancingo de Bravo, dans l’Etat d…
Central America and the Caribbean
Guatemala
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Central America and the Caribbean
Protest
Violence
Guatemala
Une mutinerie a fait 13 morts et 10 blessés lundi dans une prison proche de la capitale du Guatemala, a annoncé le ministre de l’Intérieur Francisco Rivas.
Central America and the Caribbean
Guatemala
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Central America and the Caribbean
Torture
Violence
Mexico
Amnesty International has published a chilling dispatch dated 28 June 2016. One hundred female detainees, interrogated by the NGO, have reported being subjected to torture, sexual abuse or other acts of aggression by police officers eager to obtain confessions in order to inflate the numbers of the…
Central America and the Caribbean
Health
Overcrowding
Haiti
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