Central America and the Caribbean

March 18, 2020

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Coronavirus: Prison Fever

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What measures are taken to guarantee the safety of all prisoners and prison staff? What are the consequences of the pandemic on the living conditions in prisons? Here is an overview. — Update 14/09/20 Read more

September 18, 2020

Venezuela: deaths inside prisons doubled during pandemic

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Inmate deaths have doubled in Venezuela’s jails during the coronavirus pandemic, a crisis that underscores how the country’s anarchic prisons foment violence and spread disease. Between March and August of 2020, 287 prisoners died in prisons and police holding cells, a jump from the 137 during the same…

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September 15, 2020

Nicaragua: mujeres trans hablan desde las prisiones durante la COVID-19

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September 15, 2020

México: las otras pandemias en las cárceles

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September 14, 2020

El Salvador: "son criminales y no están con este gobierno"

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July 29, 2020

Costa Rica: Justicia confirma tres casos más del virus en cárceles

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July 27, 2020

Guatemala: Exdirector de cárceles preso por corrupción muere por COVID-19

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July 24, 2020

Mexico: La fallida construcción de la infraestructura penitenciaria como negocio

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July 24, 2020

Mexico: Sobrepoblación en cárceles aviva contagios de covid, critica Cruz Roja

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Coronavirus Central America and the Caribbean Health Facilities Overcrowding Mexico

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July 15, 2020

Mexico: Registra ONG mil 100 contagios de Covid-19 en cárceles

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Coronavirus Central America and the Caribbean Health Mexico

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July 15, 2020

Cuba: Humiliation non-stop

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Jacques was arrested in February 2017 by the Cuban criminal justice system and was immediately incarcerated in a state owned highly secured prison, held incommunicado for 48 days. Her daughter became fatherless overnight. He was transferred to France in September 2019. He narrates to Prison Insider his… Read more

June 17, 2020

El Salvador: pandilleros rivales intentan convivir en cárcel

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June 12, 2020

Latin America: una masacre anunciada

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June 4, 2020

Mexico: “salí de una cárcel para ir a otra”, testimonio de un preso liberado por la pandemia

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June 4, 2020

Latin America: como evitar brotes de coronavirus en las cárceles

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June 4, 2020

Latin America: la desesperación en las cárceles frente al Covid-19

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May 28, 2020

Honduras: prison brawl leaves six dead, two injured

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TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) - Six inmates died and two more were injured between Saturday night and Sunday morning in a violent brawl in a Honduran women’s prison home to 835, part of which was set on fire, a prison official said on Sunday. The brawl started on Saturday night in the National Women’s Penitentiary…

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May 28, 2020

Mexico: eight inmates killed in prison fight

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PUENTE GRANDE, Mexico (Reuters) - A violent clash at a prison in Mexico’s central state of Jalisco on Friday left eight inmates dead and another eight prisoners hospitalized with injuries, state security officials said. During the incident at a jail in the Puente Grande complex, three people were killed…

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May 19, 2020

Honduras: cut off by coronavirus, Hondurans in packed prison suffer mental toll

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LA ESPERANZA, Honduras (Reuters) - For Yerbin Estrada, the worst part of the day is when the sun begins to set. The hundreds of inmates of La Esperanza prison in central Honduras must leave its small courtyard and file back to their cramped cells. “That is when the hell really begins,” said the powerfully…

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May 14, 2020

Nicaragua: amnistía alerta sobre coronavirus en cárceles

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May 6, 2020

El Salvador : hacinamiento, crimen y virus, la historia detrás de las fotos de presos

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May 4, 2020

El Salvador : imposes maximum security prison lockdowns after homicide spree organised from behind bars

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El Salvador president Nayib Bukele ordered a 24-hour lockdown of prisons containing gang members, and said their leaders would be sent into solitary confinement after a sudden spike in homicides. The remarkable announcement was made last Friday, after a series of grisly incidents were reported to have…

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April 30, 2020

Mexico: buscan erradicar estigmas penitenciarios a través del empleo

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April 30, 2020

Mexico: centros penitenciarios, los olvidados en México

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