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.
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…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: 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…