Ecuador prison tensions soar as 4 inmates found ‘hanged’
Prisons in Ecuador, where groups are fighting it out for control of the market and drug trafficking routes, have become among the worst in Latin America. – EPA pic, July 10, 2023.
FOUR prisoners have died apparently by hanging in the latest flare-up to hit Ecuador’s correctional system, prison authorities said yesterday. “During inspection of the pavilions, staff with the Security and Penitentiary Surveillance Corps identified four prisoners with no vital signs, and indications they had been hanged,” the national prisons office said in a press briefing on WhatsApp.
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