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The Americas: drug trafficking routes and pathways to prison
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Guatemala
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Violence
Guatemala
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Guatemala
Riot police in Guatemala have entered a youth detention centre and rescued four hostages from rioting inmates.
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Protest
Guatemala
A riot erupted Sunday at a prison for juveniles and adults, and authorities said two jail monitors were killed and several other people suffered injuries.
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Costa Rica
Since 1999 Costa Rica hasn’t built a new prison, but for this 2017, the country will have three new Comprehensive Care Units that will host 1,600 prisoners in spaces suitable for work and study.
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Overcrowding
Colombia
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Colombia
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Discipline
Canada
Correctional investigator Ivan Zinger notes positive penitentiary trends in report.
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Asia
Haiti
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Violence
Argentina
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Discipline
Canada
Canada’s family doctors are calling for an all-out ban on the use of solitary confinement in Canadian prisons.
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Guatemala
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Overcrowding
Haiti
Dozens of emaciated men with sunken cheeks and protruding ribs lie silently in an infirmary at Haiti’s largest prison, most too weak to stand.
The corpse of an inmate who died miserably of malnutrition is shrouded beneath a plastic tarp.
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Mexico
Guards at one of Mexico’s high-security prisons have to worry much more about criminals breaking in than busting out.
Despite a price tag of more than 2 billion pesos ($98 million), the Papantla prison built for about 2,000 men in the eastern state of Veracruz does not have a single inmate, and onl…
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Mexico
After we posed the question Why Aren’t We Talking About Mexican Prisons? in a previous post, it seemed appropriate to revisit the issue after a documentary series aired on the new open broadcast channel in Mexico, Imagen Televisión, showed once again how little media attention, if any, is paid to t…
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Haiti
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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 t…