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Ecuador’s Prison System in Catastrophic Crisis
Loaded on May 1, 2022
by Edward Lyon
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2022, page 42
Filed under:
Prison Reform.
Location:
Ecuador.
by Ed Lyon
After a riot in Ecuador’s El Turi prison left 20 prisoners dead on April 4, 2022, Interior Minister Patricio Castillo responded with a vow to “drain the cesspit” that his nation’s prisons have become. But how exactly?
Castillo promised to strip prison benefits from the unnamed ringleaders, ...
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