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Some Peruvian Prisoners Released

Loaded on Feb. 15, 1991 published in Prison Legal News February, 1991, page 5
Filed under: Political Prisoners, International, Prisoners-International. Location: Peru.
Prisons in Peru are so overcrowded and under financed that two prisoners a day are dying at Lurigancho prison (where 5,900 are housed). As a result of these conditions, prisoners went on a hunger strike for better conditions. The result of this strike was a "depenalization" decree by which some …

 

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