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Tag: Prison Industrial Complex

🇨🇮 Ivory Coast: 5 dead in clashes at Bouaké prison

Five inmates at an Ivory Coast prison were killed when a routine search turned into a violent clash, authorities said Wednesday. Prisoners in Bouaké , the country’s second-largest city, reacted with “hostility” to a routine search for contraband on Tuesday, prosecutor Abel Nangbelé Yeo said in a statement. Five prisoners were killed and 29 people,…
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June 5, 2025
🇿🇦 Jailhouse rot – SA prisons plagued by a cellphones, cash, drugs, knives and alcohol smuggling hub

With prison overcrowding at 155% and corruption by warders rampant, jailhouses have become hubs of crime. Dishonest warders help smuggle banned items and money, while gangsters tighten their grip from behind bars. Information that has recently surfaced in Parliament, combined with issues linked to the South African Police Service, provides a much grittier insight into…
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March 2, 2025
Chile to speed up construction of maximum security prison to fight organized crime

Chile will speed up construction of a new maximum security prison in the region that encompasses the capital city of Santiago to help fight organized crime, President Gabriel Boric announced on Thursday. The new facility will cost an estimated $95.4 million (90 billion Chilean pesos) and house around 500 maximum security inmates as part of…
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July 20, 2024