News of prisoners

Regional human rights body slams Ecuador over prison deaths

23-08-2021 20:39 Inter-American Commission on Human Rights condemns violence in Ecuadorean prisons that has left 121 inmates dead this year.

Human Rights

Italian prison guards filmed beating inmates after protest

30-06-2021 14:05 Graphic video images surfaced Wednesday of dozens of Italian prison guards beating unarmed inmates with truncheons and fists after a coronavirus-related protest last year.

Latin America

Victims of Uruguay's dictatorship seek justice

19-03-2021 13:46 A group of Uruguayan women are seeking justice for the sexual abuse they suffered throughout the country's 1973 dictatorship. With few developments in the case, they have decided to approach the regional watchdog.

CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Protest against release of prisoners ups pressure on Fernández

02-05-2020 07:32 Noisy cacerolazo protest, heard in major cities across the country, highlights growing anger at granting of house arrest to criminals during coronavirus pandemic.

cacerolazo

Noisy pot-banging protest rejects release of prisoners during pandemic

30-04-2020 23:17 Pot-banging returned to the streets of Buenos Aires on Thursday evening, as angry citizens staged a cacerolazo protest to reject the release of inmates from prison among the coronavirus pandemic.

Coronavirus pandemic

Virus spreads fear through Latin America's unruly prisons

29-04-2020 12:50 The spreading spectre of the new coronavirus is shaking Latin America's notoriously overcrowded, unruly prisons, threatening to turn them into infernos.

Coronavirus Pandemic

'We refuse to die in prison': Villa Devoto prison inmates riot amid pandemic

24-04-2020 16:34 Prisoners set fire to mattresses and riot arguing for house arrest due to coronavirus. Eleven prison officials have been hospitalized for minor burns.

CRIME & SECURITY

Court recommends house arrest for 'non-violent' prisoners

22-04-2020 17:01 Court recommends house arrest be granted to prisoners convicted of "non-violent" crimes. Decision draws immediate backlash from the families of crime victims.

CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

Prisoners jailed for minor offences begin to be released amid pandemic

18-04-2020 09:55 Sources within the Justice and Human Rights Ministry told the Times about 15 percent of those considered ‘at risk’ in federal prisons have already been released to house arrest.

by Luciana Bertoia

HUMAN RIGHTS

Dictatorship-era criminals request release from jail, citing virus risk

28-03-2020 10:15 More than 70 prisoners convicted of crimes against humanity have asked for house arrest, citing fears they will be infected by the novel Covid-19 coronavirus while behind bars.

by Luciana Bertoia

As I see it

Political unprisoners

23-02-2020 16:53 The notion that some people are entitled to remain above the law is shared, or regarded as unimportant, by such a large proportion of the electorate that disabusing it seems well-nigh impossible.

by James Neilson

Corruption & The Courts

De Vido and Baratta released from prison to house arrest

15-12-2019 11:53 Two ex-Kirchnerite officials were released from detention late Friday night, after a ruling ordered they be committed to house arrest and wear ankle-monitoring bracelets.