The Colombian government announced it will be releasing more than 10,000 prisoners under house arrest during the coronavirus pandemic, a week 23 inmates died during a prison riot. The National Penitentiary and Prison Institute will grant temporary release to detainees who are over the age of 60. Also among the 10,850 prisoners eligible to be placed in home confinement are pregnant women and mothers with children under the age of three. The body of a male prisoner lies on the roof of La Modelo, a jail in Bogotá , Colombia, where an inmate riot over fears of the coronavirus left 23 detainees dead on March 22. Detainees who in the past were found guilty of corruption and crimes against minors will be barred from being put under house arrest.

Source: Daily Mail March 30, 2020 19:04 UTC