Tag: Prison

• Saturday, August 5th 2023 - 10:50 UTC

  Nine Ecuadorian prison officials arrested after police raids

  

  Ecuadorian authorities confirmed Friday that nine officials from the country's prisons bureau in the city of Guayaquil had been arrested after weapons, explosives, and drugs were found in their offices “following the inspection of wards in the Penitenciaría del Litoral,” the Prosecutor's Office said on its Twitter account after some 2,000 troops carried out three raids resulting in “the seizure of firearms, bladed weapons, ammunition, explosives, drugs, among other prohibited objects.”

• Tuesday, June 28th 2022 - 21:11 UTC

  At least 49 killed in Colombian prison fire

  

  At least 49 inmates died have died Tuesday during a riot at the Colombian prison in Tuluá, while 30 others and some keepers were also injured, it was reported.

• Tuesday, October 19th 2021 - 18:20 UTC

  Uruguay launches literacy plan for prison inmates

  

  The Government of Uruguay Tuesday launched an education plan to reverse the large number of prison inmates who are unable to read and write in this day and age, Interior Minister Luis Heber announced.

• Wednesday, February 24th 2021 - 08:58 UTC

  At least 62 dead in gang violence in Ecuador prison mutinies

  

  The Ecuadorian police on Tuesday said at least 62 people had been killed in prison mutinies in three separate facilities. News of the violence comes as Ecuador struggles to deal with prison overcrowding and frequent violence between gangs.

• Saturday, August 8th 2020 - 07:27 UTC

  Falklands: prison sentences for the three Kiwi fishermen involved in violent disorder

  

  Three New Zealanders were this week handed custodial sentences at the Falklands' Magistrate’s Court after pleading guilty to violent disorder. Samuel Goldsworthy, Sonny Ball, and Chassy Duncan were each sentenced to prison terms lasting 14 months, 12 months, and eight months respectively.

• Tuesday, March 17th 2020 - 07:58 UTC

  Hundreds flee in a major break out of four Sao Paulo jails

  

  Hundreds of prisoners broke out of four Brazilian jails on Monday, the day before their day-release privileges were due to be suspended over the coronavirus outbreak, Sao Paulo state prison authorities and local media reported.

• Tuesday, October 15th 2019 - 08:57 UTC

  Massive protests in Catalonia and clashes with riot police after separatist leaders were sentenced to prison for sedition

  

  Thousands of protesters in Catalonia took to the streets Monday and blocked Barcelona's El Prat airport after Spain's Supreme Court sentenced nine separatist leaders to lengthy prison terms for their attempt to declare independence from Spain in 2017.

• Wednesday, August 7th 2019 - 08:20 UTC

  Brazilian drug dealer who failed in attempt to escape dressed as his daughter, found dead in his cell 

  

  Prison authorities in Brazil have found convicted drug dealer Clauvino da Silva dead in his cell, three days after an elaborate escape was foiled. Prison officials said it appeared that Silva had hanged himself.

• Wednesday, July 31st 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Inmates of Brazilian prison riots transferred to other jails; drug gangs rivalry and fighting out of control

  

  Forty-six inmates involved in one of Brazil's deadliest prison riots were being transferred to other jails on Tuesday, an official said. At least 57 people were killed on Monday when fighting broke out between rival drug gang factions in the Altamira Regional Recovery Centre in the northern state of Para.

• Tuesday, July 30th 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Brazilian prison gangs' rivalry leave at least 57 inmates killed, many decapitated

  

  At least 57 inmates were killed in a prison riot in northern Brazil on Monday as rival gang factions fought each other, an official said. Sixteen of the dead were decapitated in the second major eruption of violence to rock the country's severely overpopulated and deadly prison system in as many months.