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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Mexico - 27 February 2017

Region: Crime and prisons I: the policy dilemma

Conditions in Latin American prisons continue to be alarming. In January, over 130 prisoners died in bloody battles between rival gangs in Brazilian prisons in Manaus and Boa Vista. Some of the victims were decapitated. There is a tragic and long history of prison violence running right across the region. In February last year 49 prisoners were killed in a riot and fire at the Topo Chico jail in Mexico. Look further back and the list goes on. Some 350 prisoners died in another fire in Comayagua, Honduras in 2012. Fifty-eight died in Uribana, Venezuela in 2013. While the pattern is familiar, how governments should respond is less obvious.

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