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41 Hostage Prison Workers Are Freed in Ecuador
11 months, 1 week ago

41 Hostage Prison Workers Are Freed in Ecuador

News 18  

More than 40 Ecuador prison officials taken hostage by inmates have been freed, the prisons authority said Saturday, as the country grapples with a brutal campaign of gang terror. The 24 guards and 17 administrative employees “were released,” the SNAI prisons authority said without providing details, while 133 guards and three employees continue to be held hostage. The guards and …

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Ecuador prison staff held hostage by inmates all freed
11 months, 1 week ago

Ecuador prison staff held hostage by inmates all freed

Al Jazeera  

Prison authorities say 158 guards and 20 administrative staffers were held by inmates in at least seven prisons. “Security protocols and the joint work of the police and the national army enabled the release of all the hostages who were being held in various prisons across the country,” SNAI prison authorities said in a statement on the social media platform …

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‘We are all suffering’: What’s going on inside Ecuador’s prisons?
3 years, 1 month ago

‘We are all suffering’: What’s going on inside Ecuador’s prisons?

Al Jazeera  

Hundreds have been killed in gang-linked riots this year, as experts say systemic problems plague country’s prisons. “Like all the other mothers in Guayaquil say, don’t give information, we don’t know anything, we don’t have access to anything.” Systemic problems Security experts in Ecuador have identified 11 armed groups that control the country’s prisons, including Ecuador’s largest, Los Choneros – …

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Ecuador prison riots death toll rise to 27
3 years, 5 months ago

Ecuador prison riots death toll rise to 27

Al Jazeera  

President Guillermo Lasso issues order ‘to mobilise all necessary human and economic resources’ to re-establish order after deadly incident. President Guillermo Lasso had issued the order “to mobilise all necessary human and economic resources to re-establish order” in Ecuador’s prisons after violence erupted on Wednesday at jails in Guayas, in southwestern Ecuador, and Cotopaxi, in the centre of the country. …

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Ecuador: At least 18 inmates die in two prison riots
3 years, 5 months ago

Ecuador: At least 18 inmates die in two prison riots

Al Jazeera  

The latest violence comes months after at least 79 inmates died in the country’s worst prison riots. At least 18 inmates died and several police officers were injured during riots at two of Ecuador’s largest penitentiaries, the Andean country’s SNAI prison authority said late on Wednesday, marking the second major deadly wave of prison violence this year. On Thursday, Ecuador’s …

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