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Central America and the Caribbean
Honduras
It is in an effort to prevent penitentiaries serving as crime command centers.
America
Central America and the Caribbean
Honduras
The Honduran government said on Tuesday it had moved 773 gang members to a maximum security prison, completing the relocation of some 2,000 highly dangerous inmates in a bid to prevent penitentiaries serving as command centers for criminal activity.
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Central America and the Caribbean
Honduras
Sixty-five people escaped from prison in less than 15 days in Honduras, highlighting the chronic dysfunction of the country’s prison system.
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Central America and the Caribbean
Mexico
A tunnel has been discovered in a Mexican prison, stashed with drugs, alcohol and sharp tools, according to local authorities. Police in Tamaulipas state said the hole, which had been hidden by bricks, was up to five metres (16ft) deep. They said it was unfinished and no one has escaped.
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Central America and the Caribbean
Mexico
US $36 million has been spent on improving Mexican prisons
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Central America and the Caribbean
Haiti
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Discipline
Canada
Ontario’s prisons adviser has laid out a plan that would catapult the province’s prison system from a national laggard to one of the most progressive in the world by placing hard limits on the use of solitary confinement and prohibiting the segregation of vulnerable prisoner populations.
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Justice
Canada
Elimination of some minimum mandatory sentences and reform of bail system will be under review
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Death penalty
United States
Utah will execute three inmates by firing squad for the first time since the method was reinstated in 2015 by Gov. Gary Herbert.
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North America
United States
A decline in the number of federal prosecutions and in the severity of sentences for drug-related crime in recent years has resulted in a significant drop in the federal prison population, according to statistics from the Judiciary, the U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC), and the Bureau of Prisons (…