Colombian prisoners on hunger strike over overcrowding crisis
Colombian prisoners on hunger strike over overcrowding crisis
Thursday, 09 August 2012 17:30 Sarah Kinosian / Olle Pettersson
Prisoners all over Colombia have gone on hunger strike to protest pervasive overcrowding and unbearable conditions. Calls for the resignation of the director of the country's prison authority rose on Thursday.
“Everyone is rioting and on a hunger strike. We are not accepting any type of alimentation,” inmates from Bogota's La Picota prison and from the Combita prison in the central Boyaca department told newspaper El Tiempo.
"Conditions are horrific," a source told Colombia Reports. "People have been incarcerated way past their sentences."
A wave of prisoner protests began following initial movements by inmates in Bogota’s “Buen Pastor” and “La Modelo” prisons, enraged by overcrowding, increasingly poor conditions and inadequate access to basic life resources such as healthcare and water.
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