Tag: prision

• Monday, June 17th 2024 - 07:11 UTC

  Argentina's Security Minister gets first-hand glimpse of “Bukele Model”

  

  Argentina's Security Minister Patricia Bullrich Sunday visited El Salvador's controversial Confinement Center for Terrorism (CECOT), probably seeking to replicate the model in her country, it was reported. Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele had told her he was open to giving Argentina any assistance it might need regarding security issues.

• Tuesday, August 6th 2019 - 09:47 UTC

  Brazilian gang leader caught trying to escape from prison dressed as his teenage daughter

  

  A Brazilian gang leader tried to escape from prison by impersonating his teenage daughter, complete with a lifelike silicone mask and wig, before attempting to walk out the front door in her place after she visited him.

• Friday, May 10th 2019 - 08:30 UTC

  “Spider” man arrested in Ecuador and sentenced to two years in prison

  

  A Japanese man was sentenced to two years in prison in Ecuador for attempting to smuggle a massive haul of creepy crawlies out of the country, officials said on Thursday.

• Tuesday, September 11th 2018 - 08:23 UTC

  Brazil criminal gang breaks into top security jail and let 100 inmates escape

  

  Heavily armed men blew down the front gate of a maximum security prison in northeastern Brazil early Monday and with guns blazing, enabled more than 100 inmates to escape while killing a policeman, authorities said.

• Thursday, December 9th 2010 - 07:20 UTC

  Fire in an overcrowded Santiago de Chile jail, kills at least 83 inmates

  

  Fire engulfed a prison in the Chilean capital Santiago Wednesday early in the morning, killing 83 inmates and critically injuring 14 others, the government said, in the worst-ever accident in the country's jail system.