Ecuador started this Monday the first prison census of its history, with which it seeks to register the more than 32,000 prisoners currently incarcerated in the country’s 36 prisons, where since 2020 more than 400 inmates have been killed in different clashes between rival criminal gangs.
The registration began in the prison of Tulcán, capital of the northern province of Carchi, bordering Colombia, and will take about three months, as anticipated by the national prison service (SNAI), in charge of managing and guarding Ecuadorian prisons.
The census will be carried out by two teams, one from the north and the other from the south, and both will meet in the city of Guayaquil, where the Litoral Penitentiary is located, the most populous prison in Ecuador, where they were registered. the bloodiest and most macabre episodes between prisoners last year.
This process is coordinated with the Human Rights Secretariat of the national government and has the support of the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC), the general directorate of the Civil Registry and the National Police and Armed Forces.
Of the more than 32,000 prisoners who were incarcerated in Ecuador’s prisons at the end of July, 30,440 were men and 2,065 women, according to the latest report published by the SNAI, and close to 13,000 prisoners, equivalent to more than a third, are imprisoned without sentence, in a provisional prison regime.
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