Ecuador has been the scene of the death of some 300 people as a result of clashes in the country’s prisons in 2021.
The Ecuadorian authorities began this Monday a pilot plan preparatory to a census broader and that, for the first time, will gather sociodemographic and legal information on the prison population, in the midst of the serious prison crisis that this year leaves at least 300 inmates murdered.
The National Comprehensive Care Service to Adult Deprived of Liberty and Adolescent Offenders of Ecuador (SNAI) explained that the plan, lasting two days, aims to carry out a census of the prison population to obtain information of various kinds such as sociodemographic, legal data, family situation and treatment axes.
The census will allow the implementation of actions to achieve the objectives of the Ecuador Rescue Plan regarding the care of the prison situation.
The prison authority indicated in a statement.
The identification of murdered inmates began, but the number of deaths due to gang warfare in the Penitentiary reaches 116, the worst massacre
This will take place in one of the Deprivation of Liberty Centers of the country this Monday and Tuesday and its execution is put into practice by the technical table formed by the SNAI, the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC), the General Directorate of Civil Registry, Identification and Certification, the National Directorate of Police Scientific Technical Investigation and the Secretariat of Human Rights.
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It is a initial test that will allow to refine details of what will be the 2022 Penitentiary Census, in the 36 detention centers in the country, adds the SNAI.
In parallel, the authorities also will review application details of the security protocol, biosafety measures, logistics, registration times in forms and exchange and consolidation of information.
The death toll in the prison massacre increased to 119, 100 have been identified
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Ecuador has been the scene this 2021 of the death Of nails 300 people as a consequence of confrontations between rival gangs, generally linked to drug trafficking, within prisons.
The most serious incidents were recorded in the Litoral Penitentiary in the province of Guayas, of which Guayaquil is the capital, the largest prison in the country and where more than 200 prisoners lost their lives in two events that occurred in recent months.
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The experts of the Committee against Torture and the UN Subcommittee for the Prevention of Torture have recently expressed their alarm at “the continued violence in Ecuador’s prisons, where hundreds of deaths have been recorded in recent months”.
This is known of the new massacre in the Litoral Penitentiary
The Ecuadorian prison system is under Exception status since September 29 and was renewed for an additional 30 days last month by the president, Guillermo Lasso, for the “serious internal commotion” generated by these violent events. (I)
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