Prisons in Latin America are In a Critical Condition

A new report suggests that Latin America's prisons are overcrowded, violent and sometimes lack even the most basic services. As incarceration rates have soared across the region over the past two decades, Latin America's jails have become packed, nightmarish facilities where serving time is a battle to survive, rights groups say. In Brazil, whose President Dilma Rousseff was jailed by the former military regime for three years in the 1970s, nearly half ...

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Written by: editor - Tuesday, September 2, 2014