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46 Honduran Prisoners Massacred in Their Cells
Article • October 15, 2023 • from PLN October, 2023
Filed under: Prison Gangs, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death)
46 Honduran Prisoners Massacred in Their Cells by On June 20, 2023, a grisly riot broke out in a Honduran women’s prison in Tamara, 30 miles from the capital Tegucigalpa. It started when rival gang members from a different cellblock took keys from guards and locked down the area. The …
News in Brief
Article • September 1, 2020 • from PLN September, 2020
Filed under: News in Brief
News in Brief by California:In June 2020, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) commuted 21 state prisoners’ sentences, a dozen of them were for murder convictions, patch.com reported. Seven were committed when the prisoner was 22 or younger. Half of the prisoners are now 59 or older. One commutation went to …
How the US Imposes the Worst of Its Prison Paradigm Abroad
Article • February 9, 2018
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement
How the US Imposes the Worst of Its Prison Paradigm Abroad by Nasim Chatha by Nasim Chatha, Truthout  The new federal penitentiary in Santa Barbara, Honduras, occupies a strip of land between a highway and cloudy, forested hills. "El Pozo," or The Pit, as it's known, is surrounded by barbed wire and …
Report: Prisons in Honduras are Dangerous, Violent and Corrupt
Article • August 13, 2014 • from PLN August, 2014
Filed under: Totality of Conditions, Failure to Protect (General), Overcrowding, International
Report: Prisons in Honduras are Dangerous, Violent and Corrupt by Matthew Clarke 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 …
Deadly Prison Fire Kills Hundreds in Honduras
Article • July 15, 2013 • from PLN July, 2013
Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Fire Hazards, Overcrowding, Shootings, Prisoners-International
Deadly Prison Fire Kills Hundreds in Honduras by They screamed from their dilapidated cells as a scorching fire swept through the prison where they were held. But the cries of prisoners burning alive inside the overcrowded Comayagua National Penitentiary in Honduras on February 14, 2012 were met by gunshots fired …
Latest Honduran Prison Massacre: "Homies Were Burning Alive"
Article • January 15, 2005 • from PLN January, 2005
Filed under: Gang Policies, Crime, Excessive Force, Guard Brutality/Beatings, Prisoners-International, Immigration, Wrongful Death, Accidents
Latest Honduran Prison Massacre: "Homies Were Burning Alive" by Tom Hayden In first-ever interviews, representatives of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS) gang in Tegucigalpa, Honduras this May described how security forces were to blame for the May 17, 2004 prison fire that killed 105 of those they call their homeboys. In …
Honduras Prison Massacre: What Really Happened
Article • October 15, 2003 • from PLN October, 2003
Filed under: DOC/BOP misconduct, Gang Policies, Overcrowding, Excessive Force, Prisoners-International, Wrongful Death
Honduras Prison Massacre: What Really Happened by On April 5, 2003, 68 people were murdered inside the walls of the El Porvenir prison in Honduras. The story that initially came out of that country said that 59 of the dead were gang members who shot at other prisoners, then barricaded …