Megacarcel Construction for Gang Members Suspended in Guatemala

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Guatemala began last Friday the construction of a maximum security prison with capacity for 2,000 prisoners of high danger, mainly gang members, without emulating the megaprison in El Salvador, according to the authorities, the prison, which will be on a farm seized from the narco in Izabal, 290 km north-east of the capital, is one of the measures to contain the gangs, which in recent months launched attacks against the police and rioted in seve…

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The Joint Chamber of the Izabal Court of Appeal granted provisional protection that suspends the construction of the maximum security prison “El Triunfo”, in the municipality of Morales, Izabal. According to the resolution, the judges considered that there is a clear risk related to the location of the project, noting that the area could be vulnerable to flooding, which would pose a danger to both detainees and the nearby population. The ruling …

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Guatemala's justice provisionally suspended this Saturday the construction of a maximum security prison with capacity for 2,000 high-risk prisoners, mainly gang members.An appeals chamber made the decision one day after President Bernardo Arévalo laid the first stone in the prison "El Triunfo", which will rise on a farm seized from the narco in Izabal, 290 km northeast of the capital, over the Caribbean.