This Country's Military Has Taken Control Of It's Prisons After 46 Inmates Killed (Videos)

Written By BlabberBuzz | Wednesday, 28 June 2023 05:15 AM
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This Country's Military Has Taken Control Of It's Prisons After 46 Inmates Killed (Videos)

The Honduran military has taken control of the country's violent prisons following a gang dispute that left 46 inmates dead at a women's detention center last week.

Leftist President Xiomara Castro announced last week that she would hand the military police control of the prison system, a departure from a past stance of demilitarizing security, as her administration seeks to stop organized crime activity inside prisons.

The military police assumed control over Tamara and La Tolva, two of the country's prisons, on Monday. Tamara, where some 4,200 inmates are crammed into a facility with a capacity to accommodate 2,500, is one of the most overcrowded prisons in the country.

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In Honduras, some 20,000 inmates coexist in 26 overcrowded prisons, with a United Nations report stating that the country's prisons are 34.2% over capacity.

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The military police seized pistols, machine guns, ammunition, magazines, and grenades from an area of the Tamara prison occupied by the Barrio 18 gang. Defense Minister Jose Manuel Zelaya said in a tweet, "Our mission is to defeat organized crime inside the prisons, and we are (also) going after the intellectual authors operating from outside."

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Colonel Fernando Munoz told reporters, "The corruption in the prisons is over. We are going to control it, and there will be no calls coming out of here to order extortions or executions."

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