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bout 60 inmates were killed in a prison riot sparked by a fight between rival drug gangs in the Brazilian city of Manaus, local authorities said.
The uprising began Sunday afternoon at the Anísio Jobim prison complex and lasted more than 17 hours. Two prison-based gangs have been battling over cont…
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Guatemala
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Brazil
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Colombia
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Canada
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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 desc…
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Panama
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Venezuela
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Canada
Donald Best is an access to justice advocate and a former Toronto Police Service sergeant who spent 63 days in solitary confinement in 2013-2014.
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Canada
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A guard at a Haiti prison is suspected of helping 173 inmates escape from a prison over the weekend.
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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.
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A third prison riot since Sunday night in Brazil has led to a mass escape of inmates.
Fifty-five prisoners in Sao Paulo’s Franco da Rocha psychiatric ward escaped after starting a fire which burned down a wing of the prison. Despite a huge manhunt in the city’s suburb involving helicopters police w…
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At least 25 inmates have been killed in clashes between two rival factions in an overcrowded prison in northern Brazil, local media report.
Seven of the dead were beheaded and six others burned to death, a police official reportedly said.
The incident in Boa Vista, the capital of Roraima state, hap…