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 : Colombia's Mirror: War and Drug Trafficking in the Prison System
Colombia’s prisons are a reflection of the multiple conflicts that have plagued the country for the last half-century. Paramilitaries, guerrillas and drug trafficking groups have vied for control of the jails where they can continue to manage their operations on the outside. Instead of corralling t…Inside Colombia’s hottest new restaurant where the inmates of a women’s prison are in charge
Visitors are flocking to a new gourmet restaurant in Cartagena with a difference; it’s located inside the San Diego women’s prison and the inmates in pink turbans cook and serve the food. Restaurante Interno opened in December and has already attracted a strong turnout in the tourist town. Visitors…Colombia : Report Slams Colombia's Failure to Control Prison Overcrowding
A report by Colombia’s Comptroller General details the state’s failure to control runaway overcrowding in prisons despite major investments, highlighting the deep-rooted issues that Latin American states consistently fail to address in reforming their crumbling penitentiary systems. The report desc…Colombia : cárcel de mujeres de Cartagena supera un hacinamiento del 150%
El centro carcelario tiene capacidad para 50 y hay más de 180 internas. Según Ramiro Cuadro García director de la cárcel de mujeres San Diego de Cartagena han tenido que hacer hasta lo imposible para acomodar a todas las internas que hay y que van llegando todos los días al centro penitenciario. “L…Colombia : Sorry, we can't let you go on honeymoon! Amazing pictures show 17 prisoners of a tough Colombian jail get hitched in mass wedding behind bars
A notorious high-security prison in Colombia allowed 17 of its inmates to get married yesterday to their long-term girlfriends. The mass ceremony at the Carcel Villa Hermosa prison in Cali, Colombia saw the happy couples sign up to spend the rest of their lives together, once their husbands have co…Colombia : Colombia Raids 'Luxury' Prison Wing
Colombia’s prison authorities have moved to “retake” a section of the country’s most notorious prison, after reports emerged of the luxury lifestyles of the wealthy inmates living there. Colombia’s National Penitentiary and Prison Institute (INPEC) raided what is popularly known as the “parapolitic…