“The Police and the Armed Forces prevent a riot in the Santo Domingo detention center. Given the alert of possible incidents, SNAI with the support of the Ecuadorian Armed Forces and Police have carried out operations to protect order and security,” SNAI has reported on its social networks.
A delegation of state authorities were in jail to verify the situation after Monday’s incidents, where, in addition to the more than 40 deaths, there were about ten prisoners injured, according to the newspaper El Universo.
Outside the prison, the person in charge of the Political Headquarters of Santo Domingo, Luis Guamán, stated to the media that a device has been put in place to transfer several inmates to other prisons, although he has not confirmed how many .
Monday’s massacre is the second to occur in the last two months. In April, 20 inmates were killed in the Turi prison in a fight linked by the Police to disputes between gangs.
The government of William Lasso He promised to reform the prison system, recurrently marked by incidents that even claim dozens of lives. Only last year some 300 inmates would have died, for which the Executive has proposed a series of initiatives, including a prison census.
Source: Ambito
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