QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ten inmates were killed Friday in a criminal insurrection in the Ecuadorian capital that the government says followed the government’s decision to transfer three crime bosses to a high-security facility.
The riots at Quito’s prison are the latest challenge to the country’s penitentiary system, the Service for Persons Deprived of Liberty, whose facilities have witnessed fatal clashes between inmates.
The firm in a aforementioned Police and Army had regained control of the criminal and would act “firmly and relentlessly to combat organized crime. “
The prosecutor tweeted that the bodies of the detainees were being recovered.
The riots have in common Ecuadorian criminals, especially in the Guayaquil Litoral prison. The criminal in the port city of Guayaquil counted a month ago the murders of thirteen inmates. In September last year, 126 detainees were killed there.
The back-to-back unrest led President Guillermo Lasso’s government to displace the leaders of at least 10 gangs. Authorities attributed the unrest to territorial disputes between domestics and gangs.
Ecuador’s criminal formula is designed for about 30,000 inmates, but as of last month, the 53 state criminals housed about 35,000 people. Data from the correction formula shows that last year 316 inmates were killed by other inmates, while in 2022 the figure dropped to 130 homicides.