The protest in Catalan prisons reveals the Government’s inability to stop the crisis | News from Catalonia

The protests by Catalan prison officials following the murder of a cook at the hands of a prisoner last Wednesday have confirmed the inability of the acting Government of Pere Aragonès to stop the open crisis in the prisons. Since Friday, intermittently, workers’ blockades have forced prisoners to be locked in their cells, suspended trials, … Read more

Prison officials challenge the Catalan Government after the murder of a worker | News from Catalonia

Prison officials are carrying out an unprecedented mobilization in Catalonia in the face of an unprecedented event: the murder, at the hands of a prisoner, of Nuria López, cook at the Mas d’Enric prison (Tarragona). “We are all Nuria,” repeat the workers, who have been warning for months about an increase in attacks and insecurity … Read more

Iulian Odriste, the double murderer who set fire to Catalan prisons | News from Catalonia

Concentration of officials in front of the Quatre Camins prison (Barcelona), on the third day of protests over the murder in prison of a cook at the hands of an inmate.Maximilian Minocri April 24, 2016. Around 1:30 a.m. In a private home in Valls (Tarragona). Iulian Odriste, a 41-year-old construction employee, picks up a kitchen … Read more

Daniel Noboa secretly creates a database of genetic profiles of criminals in Ecuador

Noboa, a 36-year-old businessman and son of the country’s richest man, surprisingly won Ecuador’s presidential election in October last year. After taking office in November, he welcomed a country mired in violence and controlled by gangs. Paradoxically, the gangs exercised their power from the prisons, whose cell blocks the authorities did not dare to enter. … Read more

Almost 5,000 prisoners are confined to their cells in Catalonia due to the protest of officials | News from Catalonia

The blockade that prison officials have maintained since early this Friday on access to penitentiary centers in Catalonia is beginning to have serious consequences. The protests have prevented the change of shift and, with staff at minimum levels, the nine centers in Catalonia have seen normality altered. Six of them have been forced to confine … Read more

A prisoner kills the cook at Mas d’Enric prison and commits suicide | News from Catalonia

Penitentiary center Mas d’Enric, in Tarragona.Josep Lluís Sellart An inmate at the Mas d’Enric prison (Tarragona) fatally stabbed the center’s cook on Wednesday afternoon and then committed suicide, as various prison sources have explained to this newspaper. The events occurred around 5:00 p.m. The victim is Nuria L., a middle-aged woman who worked for the … Read more

“Ring” trafficked drugs in prisons [Βίντεο] 2024-03-07 11:55:49

After a methodical and systematic investigation by the Drug Prosecution Department of the Trikala Security Sub-Directorate, a criminal organization whose members were active in transporting, importing and dealing narcotics in a detention center was dismantled. In the context of an organized police operation that started the night before yesterday (2-03-2024) and continued yesterday (3-03-2024), by … Read more

Shervin Hajipour: Iran sentences the author of the anthem of the protests over the death of Mahsa Amini to almost four years in prison |

they stayed, The title of a song by Shervin Hajipour, means “because” or “because” in Farsi. The lyrics that this 26-year-old musician, one of the most popular in Iran, wrote, inspired by 31 messages that other Iranians had published on social networks, say: “For dancing in the streets”, “for every time we were afraid to … Read more