Gang rule of prisons isn’t limited to Brazil—it’s an epidemic across Latin America
Prisoner caught with grenade where?An inmate at an El Salvador jail was caught with a hand grenade stuffed up his backside—a novel attempt to disguise his apparent escape plans. Guards at the San Francisco Gotera prison outside the capital San Salvador found the V40 grenade, about the size of a golf ball, lodged up the man’s rectum during a security clampdown, a prison spokesman said on Thursday.
They also caught another 16 inmates who each swallowed a mobile phone. “We’ll have to expel the objects and if they won’t come out we’ll have to perform surgery in hospital,” said Alberto Uribe, a spokesman for the El Salvador prison service.
Last year, prison guards found an M67 grenade in the vagina of a female visitor at the overcrowded La Esperanza-Mariona prison on the northern fringes of San Salvador.
Prisoners in the Central American country use weapons to try to escape or attack fellow inmates and prison guards, and use cellular phones to order free gang members to commit crimes or smuggle narcotics.
You know things are wrong when this is the state of affairs at a country’s prisons. One can only hope that it’s a good sign that the authorities are cracking down.
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Chief Wiggum added these pithy words on 03 Mar 07 at 1:53 pmYou could be describing the activities of some prisoners in California. Gangs are active, and according to the newspapers direct criminal activity outsider the prisons, including murder.
BTW, I had a friend who was an emergency room physician at San Francisco general hospital. He said the staff had a collection of objects removed from rectums. If memory serves, these objects included a cue ball, lightbulb, screwdriver, and a shot glass.
Curzon added these pithy words on 03 Mar 07 at 4:05 pm
You could be describing the activities of some prisoners in California. Gangs are active, and according to the newspapers direct criminal activity outsider the prisons, including murder.I said “across Latin America”... and by many definitions we could include California in the scope of that description. The state itself is fast approaching a majority Latin America population, and I would wager that the prisons are easily a Latin American majority (not a racist statement, but an estimate made on rational analysis of a variety of data read over the years).
