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Report: Prisons in Honduras are Dangerous, Violent and Corrupt
Loaded on Aug. 12, 2014
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2014, page 52
Filed under:
Totality of Conditions,
Failure to Protect (General),
Overcrowding,
International.
Location:
Honduras.
Report: Prisons in Honduras are Dangerous, Violent and Corrupt
by Matt Clarke
When a February 2012 fire at a prison in Comayagua, Honduras killed 361 prisoners after guards abandoned their posts – leaving the prisoners to die in their cells – there was hope that the resulting …
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