The Colombian Government declared this Monday a prison emergency to confront the persecution of prison guards by criminal gangs and combat the extortion carried out from the country’s detention centers, all of which are highly overcrowded.
«We have just unanimously approved in the Board of Directors of the National Penitentiary and Prison Institute (Inpec) the declaration of prison emergency which has two purposes: one to protect the life and integrity of prison guards, and the other to completely eradicate extortion and “corruption that comes from prisons”said the Minister of Justice, Néstor Osuna.
The measure comes after the wave of violence in recent weeks against Inpec officials, of which the most recent incident is the murder of the dragonfighter Jesús Cárdenas, shot on Saturday by two hitmen near the San Sebastián de Ternera prison. , from Cartagena, while having breakfast. EFE
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