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Ecuador’s military was sent in to seize control of the country’s prisons last month after two major gang leaders escaped and criminal groups quickly set off a nationwide revolt that paralyzed the country. In Brazil last week, two inmates with connections to a major gang became the first to escape from one of the nation’s five maximum-security federal prisons, officials said. Officials in Colombia have declared an emergency in its prisons after two guards were killed and several more targeted in
A new watchdog report finds widespread missteps and failures that contributed to the deaths of hundreds of federal prisoners.
Deaths have increased as agency staff fail to identify suicidal risks and allow contraband into facilities, IG finds.