“There is no justification or excuse of any kind to validate the torture of Salvadoran and Venezuelan prisoners in Salvadoran prison hells,” reads the article. Dominican jurist Dr. Ramón Antonio (Negro) Veras, in his article “The Hell of Bukele’s Prisons,” analyzes the inhumane conditions to which Salvadoran and Venezuelan prisoners are subjected in El Salvador’s […]

The right-wing government’s plan is inspired by a decision made by Denmark to rent 300 prison spots in Kosovo. The new Belgian coalition government, led by the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), has committed to reducing the country’s chronic prison overcrowding and is considering renting or building prisons abroad to achieve this goal. RELATED: El Salvador […]

Two prison guards were arrested on suspicion of providing the grenades to the prisoners. On Tuesday, at least 11 people were injured, and 11 others were detained following the detonation of three grenades at the Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil, Ecuador. RELATED: Luisa Gonzalez Presents the Plan Protege to Combat Insecurity in Ecuador Among the injured […]

Since the right has taken over Ecuador, this nation has become the Latin American country with the highest homicide rate. In the early hours of Tuesday, a riot at the Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil left at least 15 inmates dead and another 14 injured. Residents in neighborhoods near the penitentiary reported hearing gunshots and explosions […]

The bill was introduced by the ultranationalist Jewish Power party. On Thursday night, the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) approved a temporary provision allowing judges to sentence minors as young as 12 to prison if they are found guilty of murder for “terrorist” motives. RELATED: Israel Bombed Gaza With White Phosphorus on 24 Occasions: UN Report Minors […]

The civil human rights organization, Legal Humanitarian Relief (SJH), denounced on Monday before the Attorney General’s Office the Minister of Security of El Salvador, Gustavo Villatoro, and the director of Penal Centers, Osiris Luna for humanitarian outrages and crimes against humanity. RELATED:11 Deaths Due to the Heavy Rains in El Salvador According to the NGO, […]

On Thursday, Andre Garcia, the secretary of Penal Policies of the Justice Ministry, announced that the conditions of confinement in Brazilian federal prisons will be tightened. RELATED: Russian FM Lavrov To Visit Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil After the escape of two inmates from a maximum-security prison, authorities decided to suspend visits to federal prisons and keep prisoners […]

On Tuesday, a prison guard was murdered when he was heading home after finishing his work shift, according to the National Service for Prisoners (SNAI), the institution that controls Ecuadorian prisons. RELATED: Ecuador: 48 Inmates Escape From Esmeraldas Prison This murder occurs in the midst of a 60-day state of emergency issued by President Daniel […]

On Monday, Ecuador’s National Service for the Attention to Detained Persons (SNAI) confirmed the escape of 48 prisoners from the Esmeraldas prison. Five of them were subsequently recaptured. RELATED:  Ecuador: Release of Hostages From Prisons The escape is said to have occurred on Sunday but was only detected on Monday when the police and the […]