Colombia
Colombia
Colombia’s public prosecutor suspended all pending arrest warrants of its office in the country’s second largest city, Medellin, accusing the national prison authority of failing to curb overcrowding.
According to Medellin’s prosecutor’s office, it was forced to take the decision due to the “impotence…
Source — Colombia Reports
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South America
Colombia
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Source — RFI
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Torture
Colombia
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Source — El Espectador
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South America
Colombia
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Source — Contagio Radio
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South America
Colombia
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Source — Los Informantes
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South America
Overcrowding
Colombia
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Source — Contagio Radio
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Colombia : ''Debemos dejar de usar la cárcel para responder a todo", dice investigador de Dejusticia
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South America
Colombia
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Source — El Espectador
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Colombia
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Source — El Heraldo
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Drugs
Colombia
Colombia’s prisons are a reflection of the multiple conflicts that have plagued the country for the last half-century. Paramilitaries, guerrillas and drug trafficking groups have vied for control of the jails where they can continue to manage their operations on the outside. Instead of corralling these…
Source — Insight Crime
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South America
Discipline
Drugs
Facilities
Colombia
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Source — Le Courrier
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Women
Colombia
Visitors are flocking to a new gourmet restaurant in Cartagena with a difference; it’s located inside the San Diego women’s prison and the inmates in pink turbans cook and serve the food.
Restaurante Interno opened in December and has already attracted a strong turnout in the tourist town. Visitors eat…
Source — Lonely Planet
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South America
Overcrowding
Colombia
A report by Colombia’s Comptroller General details the state’s failure to control runaway overcrowding in prisons despite major investments, highlighting the deep-rooted issues that Latin American states consistently fail to address in reforming their crumbling penitentiary systems.
The report describes…
Source — Insight Crime
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South America
Colombia
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Source — El Tiempo
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Overcrowding
Colombia
El centro carcelario tiene capacidad para 50 y hay más de 180 internas.
Según Ramiro Cuadro García director de la cárcel de mujeres San Diego de Cartagena han tenido que hacer hasta lo imposible para acomodar a todas las internas que hay y que van llegando todos los días al centro penitenciario.
“La…
Source — Caracol
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South America
Colombia
A notorious high-security prison in Colombia allowed 17 of its inmates to get married yesterday to their long-term girlfriends.
The mass ceremony at the Carcel Villa Hermosa prison in Cali, Colombia saw the happy couples sign up to spend the rest of their lives together, once their husbands have completed…
Source — Dailymail
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South America
Colombia
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Source — Le Point
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Colombia
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Source — El Colombiano
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