GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador — At least 62 inmates died Tuesday and several were injured in riots blamed on gang rivalry at three jails in Ecuador’s overcrowded prison system, authorities said. “We want the death list given to us,” said Daniela Soria, 29, one of about 40 women outside the Guayaquil prison, many of them in tears. ‘Like a market’The prosecuting authority said several inmates were left injured in fighting between “criminal gangs”, including two at Guayaquil in serious condition. This still leaves Ecuador’s prison system, with a capacity to house 29,000 inmates in 60-odd facilities, with a prisoner population of 38,000. But just in December, prison unrest left 11 prisoners dead and seven injured.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer February 24, 2021 02:15 UTC