Central America and the Caribbean

January 20, 2021

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Americas: coronavirus, prison fever / 2021

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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 31/12/2020 Read more

January 22, 2020

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Coronavirus: Prison Fever / 2021

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December 2, 2020

Cuba: Amnistía Internacional pide la liberación de dos presos de conciencia de San Isidro

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November 5, 2020

Jamaica: helping move mentally ill out of prison not an issue

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“Resources and funding” have been identified by Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton as the hurdles that his ministry would need to clear in order to find suitable spaces so that mentally ill prisoners can be removed from correctional facilities. A recommendation for “some place other than…

Source — Jamaica Observer

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September 24, 2020

México: ¿qué libro le regalarías a una mujer que está en la cárcel?

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September 24, 2020

El Salvador: el caso de Cindy Erazo y qué supone su liberación para otras 18 mujeres condenadas por la estricta ley contra la interrupción del embarazo

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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…

Source — InSight Crime

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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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July 15, 2020

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

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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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