
Colombia
Seen in the press
Read our selection of press reports about this country. This is a short description of prison conditions on a national scale. It gives an account of the preceding year’s events.

Colombia: masacre entre rejas
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Colombia: grave incendio en la cárcel de Tuluá deja 51 muertos y al menos 30 heridos
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Colombia: Familiares de presos políticos encarcelados en La Modelo y otras cárceles denuncian torturas
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Colombia: cárcel de Bouwer, adjudicaron obra de ampliación en $ 563 millones
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Colombia: violent repression, paramilitarism, illegal detention and torture of peaceful protesters in Cali
Since 28 April, mass demonstrations have taken place in Cali, in the framework of the “National Strike”. It was the city that saw the greatest concentration of the most serious reports of violent repression of young protesters by the security forces and armed civilian groups, and the authorities ar…Source — Amnesty international

Colombia: octava jornada de protestas mientras organizaciones denuncian cerca de 40 fallecidos
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Colombia: por qué el país está en un escenario sin precedentes
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Colombia : las cuentas del Inpec tras ocho meses de pandemia en las cárceles
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Colombia: Corte Constitucional avala sin muchos cambios el decreto de cárceles
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Colombia: denuncian falta de médicos y más coronavirus en cárceles
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Colombia: Miles de visitas virtuales en cárceles por COVID
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Colombia: Inpec confirma la reducción de casos de COVID-19 al interior de cárceles
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Colombia: 285 casos de discriminación a población LGBTI en prisión en 2019
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Colombia: se disparan casos de coronavirus en cárceles de Cali, Cartagena y El Espinal
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Colombia: 2.236 internos contagiados por la COVID-19 en 17 cárceles
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Colombia: en Barranquilla hay 47 presos con COVID-19 en cárceles del Inpec
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Colombia: 10 horas de terror
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Colombia: coronavirus hits prison population hard
Despite local and international warnings about the spread of coronavirus among vulnerable prison populations, Colombia has seen brutal outbreaks of the virus in at least nine of its detention facilities. As parts of Colombia enter phase two of quarantine and the country begins to open up, the virus…Source — The Bogota Post

Colombia: siete horas de angustia en La Modelo
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Colombia: E-Containers ofrece cárceles en contenedores para dar solución al hacinamiento
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Colombia: el coronavirus anda libre en una prisión hacinada
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Colombia: van 324 contagios confirmados y tres muertes
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Colombia: la situación en las cárceles sigue sin solución
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Colombia: a un mes de tragedia en La Modelo, 73 casos de covid-19 en cárceles
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