Guayaquil Ecuador: Old Prison wrought with bribery, corruption, drugs, death, mafia

Eluniverso.com reported that in May 2007, President Rafael Correa announced the first emergence of the prison system. He has promised to implement a genuine policy of social rehabilitation. The complaints then were the same as previous years: bribery, illicit income of weapons, drugs and cell phones, supposed mistreatments, fights, deaths, leaks, overcrowding and mafia that controlled everything from the inside.

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At that time repeated official discourse that prisons were schools of specialization of crime, an example, the Litoral penitentiary, at kilometer 17 of the via a Daule. Six years after the presidential announcement, the problems persist within the penitentiary of the littoral. Complaints from payments of the inmates to be a little more privileged, as sleeping on a mattress or not be attacked by other inmates, continue. Thus they claim relatives of inmates and citizens who regained their freedom in the past few days. In ‘La Peni’ sends money, delimit the relatives. What has changed are the costs of ‘privileges’, whose fee increases with the passing of time. This newspaper interviewed more than 20 relatives of inmates, who agreed that bribes are almost in all the areas of this prison, passes through officials, guides and security staff and by the same criminals. Read Article