QUITO (HRNW) – Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso on Monday announced a plan to pacify prisons including with involvement of the military, as part of steps to tackle a wave of violence which has left scores of prisoners dead.
Fighting between criminal groups in the Penitenciaria del Litoral prison over the weekend killed up to 68 prisoners and injured 25, according to the government.
At the end of September 119 inmates were killed at the prison in the city of Guayaquil during the worst incident of prison violence in the country’s recent history.
Authorities attribute the unrest to competing drug-trafficking gangs fighting over trafficking routes.
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