Honduras to house inmates in public buildings

[Judi Lynn]

Honduras to house inmates in public buildings
Tuesday, May 20, 2014

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AFP) — Honduras is to incarcerate prisoners in government and other public buildings because its infamously violent jails are full to breaking point, the president said yesterday.

The Central American country is one of the most dangerous places in the world and has the highest homicide rate at 79 per 100,000 inhabitants.

"We are fitting out some higher-security spots in military facilities and some lower-level ones in other public buildings," President Juan Orlando Hernandez told RHN radio.

Honduras has 24 jails, holding in total almost 13,000 inmates — nearly twice what they were built to house.

The president said that in his first 100 days in office — his term started January 27 — "more than 1,200 criminals have been arrested," forcing special measures to deal with the surging volume in the justice system.

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Honduras-to-house-inmates-in-public-buildings_16696154

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[Louisiana1976]

1. Whatever works.

[Judi Lynn]

2. They must envy the US record of having the world's largest per capita imprisoned population.

Of course, you can't have that honor if your prisoners keep dropping dead from suffocation from overcrowding. Looks as if it's good business sense getting more space to hold the new generations of prisoners you'll be throwing out of the world and into prison.

Now for the next step, get them busy making products in there for nothing, which can be sold for a tidy profit.