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: de la cárcel a la CIDH, una transgénero empoderada
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — Wradio
Colombia: niega que la ONU examine la situación en las cárceles
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — El espectador
Colombia: proteger, no asesinar
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — Equipo Jurídico Pueblos
Doing time in a Colombian prison
Appalling conditions, drugs and overpopulation plague Colombian prisons, prevent successful reintegration and induce relapses into criminal behaviour. A recent operation revealing that many scams are done from behind the bars, shows that current prisons are far from just being corrective institutio…Source — The Bogotá Post
Colombia : es el único restaurante del mundo ubicado en el interior de una cárcel y dicen que es un éxito
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — El Intransigente
Colombia : inversión nacional de 300.000 millones de pesos para descongestionar las cárceles del país
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — Opanoticias
Colombia : hay 450 reclusos del ELN en las cárceles
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — Colombiacheck
Colombie : les prisonnières n'ont plus d'eau
Local sources have informed us of a disturbing situation in the Jamundí prison complex. Inmates in the women’s section have not had access to running water since the night of Thursday, 14 September. We have also learned that they were denied access to telephones until Sunday 17 September, thereby m…
Colombia : alcaldía empieza a llegar a acuerdos con familias de reclusos de Medellín
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — Caracol Radio
Colombia : alerta por hacinamiento en cárceles de Cúcuta
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — La FM
Colombia: cárceles, la solución inútil
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — Colombia plural
Colombia: FARC confía en que se cumpla liberación de presos políticos
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — Contagio Radio
Colombia: el uso de la cárcel se salió de proporción
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — El espectador
Colombia : incidentes en dos cárceles dejan seis heridos y varias pérdidas materiales
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — Pulzo
Colombia: las cárceles están llenas de jíbaros, no de narcotraficantes
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — El espectador
Colombia : comandantes de las Farc visitarán integrantes de la organización en cárceles de Bogotá
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — Caracol Radio
Colombia: prison crisis: prosecution suspends all Medellin arrest warrants
Colombia’s public prosecutor suspended all pending arrest warrants of its office in the country’s second largest city, Medellin, accusing the national prison authority of failing to curb overcrowding. According to Medellin’s prosecutor’s office, it was forced to take the decision due to the “impote…Source — Colombia Reports
En Colombie, dîner dans le restaurant d'une prison, c'est possible
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.Source — RFI
Censura al amor, soledad y tortura: ser LGBT en una cárcel de Colombia
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — El Espectador
Colombia: la alarmante situación de las cárceles colombianas
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — Contagio Radio
Colombia : El chat de la prisión
This video is not available in English. If you wish, you can watch the Spanish version.Source — Los Informantes
Colombia: la población en cárceles aumentó 141% desde el año 2000
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish version.Source — Contagio Radio
Colombie : Cárceles y presos de Colombia
This video is only available in Spanish.Source — El Tiempo
Colombia : ''Debemos dejar de usar la cárcel para responder a todo", dice investigador de Dejusticia
This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the Spanish versionSource — El Espectador