Ecuador has seen a huge rise in prison violence in recent years. Last year, 320 inmates were killed in riots and prison gang violence. 'More than batons needed to control Ecuador's jails' 'I saw ...

Desperate relatives are again waiting outside the prison for news of ... violence was the worst in Ecuador's history. Some 119 inmates lost their lives during a riot in the Litoral Penitentiary ...

Bolívar Garzón, head of Ecuador's Prison Department ... Garzón said that the riot, the latest in a wave of prison violence in the Andean country, was caused by “a struggle for control ...

Human rights groups have described Ecuador's penitentiary crisis as a “prison genocide” At least one inmate was killed and two others were injured Monday in yet a new prison riot in Ecuador ...

We do evil': How rival gangs with 'Pablo Escobar complex' gave kill orders over the phone and spent thousands smuggling weapons into jail for Ecuador jail riot that left 116 inmates dead Ecuador's ...

29, 2021 8:11 a.m. QUITO, Ecuador — A battle between prison gangs in the coastal city ... when 79 prisoners died in a simultaneous riot in three prisons in the country. In July, 22 more ...

In Ecuador, a wave of violence from armed drug ... Noboa said, referring to the brutal riots started by gang members ...

In February, 79 inmates were killed in simultaneous riots in various prisons ... whose brother has been in the prison for eight months. Some were calling for Ecuador’s security forces to ...

HAVANA, February 26. /TASS/. Ecuador's police and armed forces have detained more than 10,000 people suspected of taking part in armed riots triggered by prison riots in early January, the press ...

In Ecuador, a surge of violence perpetrated by ... We cannot surrender to these terrorists – Noboa said, referring to the brutal riots instigated by gang members who are incarcerated in ...

Ecuador's president has ordered that criminal gangs be "neutralised" after days of violence culminated in an attack on a television studio. Masked gunmen broke into public television channel TC's ...

Maybe it is time, now that everyone else has had his say on the continuing problem of prison riots, that a former convict should make some observations on the subject. A lot of analyses of the ...