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Analysts are comparing Ecuador’s security crackdown to similar measures taken in El Salvador, raising concerns the country could backslide on democracy.

Ecuador's new president grappled Tuesday with a security nightmare as gangsters held four police officers hostage after he declared a state of emergency in response to a drug kingpin's escape from prison."You declared a state of emergency.

Ecuador has launched a manhunt for an "extremely dangerous" narco leader who has vanished from a maximum security prison in the South American country beset by drug gang violence.Izurieta said Fito -- who obtained a law degree in prison -- was a "criminal with extremely dangerous characteristics, whose activities have characteristics of terrorism."

Ecuador will build two new maximum security prisons styled on a mega-jail capable of housing 12,000 inmates created by El Salvador’s authoritarian leader.

A man who was wrongfully convicted of the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X and exonerated in 2021 has filed a lawsuit against the federal government alleging the agency withheld evidence that would have proved his innocence at the time of the trial.

Level 5 means it is a facility with a special mission, for instance, housing dangerous, violent, and escape prone offenders.

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PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Police were investigating the murder of  Nigel Jones, the second prison officer to be gunned down here within four days as the murder toll climbed to 412 so far this year. Police said that Jones, who was last assigned to the Wayne Jackson Building at the Maximum Security Building in Arouca, east of here, was shot while at a taxi stand in Siparia, south east …

December 22, 2020 Former Philippine National Police Chief and now Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa renewed his call to revive the death penalty in the Philippines in light of the Tarlac shooting wherein a police officer killed two people. “Ayaw nila ng death penalty eh! ‘Yung ginawa ng pulis na cold-blooded killing is double murder and a heinous crime na dapat ang parusa ay death penalty pero hanggang ngayon hirap na hirap pa ring umusad ‘yung in-author kong death penalty bill,” Dela...