Tag: Jails

Ecuador ‘civil war’ crisis deepens as 130 prison guards are held hostage by inmates across five jails with some tortured and shot while civilians take up arms to defend themselves with violence erupting on the streets

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More than 130 prison guards and other staff are being held hostage by inmates in at least five prisons around Ecuador, which is descending into civil war amid a horrific escalation in gang violence.

Twisted videos circulating on social media showed how masked thugs delighted in subjecting prison staff to extreme violence, including being shot and hanging.

Terrified citizens meanwhile are resorting to taking up arms in an attempt to defend themselves, according to various reports on social media, as

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Easy Money: How Counties Are Funneling Covid Relief Funds Into New Jails

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One afternoon in mid-march, Jeremy Kaiser sat behind his corner desk at the Scott County Juvenile Detention Center. Kaiser, the director of the facility, excitedly held up a piece of yellow paper. On it he’d written a list of the people most vocally opposed to the county’s plan to build a new, bigger detention center.

“I put a little check mark by them every time they show up” at marches or the county board of

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