The figure could grow even more and at the moment there are already at least 20 dead in a riot that has shaken the Tela prison in Honduras in the midst of a crisis in the prison system that has forced the Government of this country to dismiss those responsible and Put the Army at the head to try to stop the escalation of violence in the prisons. The Honduran authorities have not yet provided official figures or explained the causes of the riot. Only the commander of the National Inter-Institutional Security Force (FUSINA), Ramón Mascoto, has preliminarily confirmed the balance of three victims on the HCH news channel. The first images that have been leaked on social networks show only four bodies and they do not provide any information on the origin of the prison revolt. All the victims have died from gunshots. The event took place just a few hours after FUSINA took control of the country’s maximum security prisons, but the Tela prison was not involved in this intervention process. Prison crisis The Government of Honduras decided last Tuesday to suspend those responsible for the National Penitentiary Institute (INP) and to put the Armed Forces and the National Police at the head of the country’s prison system. The Executive of Juan Orlando Hernández has been forced to suspend for a period of six months to the prison authorities and declare a state of emergency in the prisons after a series of incidents and deaths in the prisons of the Central American country.The order adopted by the Council of Ministers stipulates “to intervene in the National Penitentiary System for a period of six months, which includes the National Penitentiary Institute and the National Institute for the Attention of Juvenile Offenders, appointing for this purpose an intervening commission made up in full by the National Inter-Institutional Security Force (FUSINA). ”The Minister of the Presidency, Ebal Díaz, explained that the Executive has reached the conclusion“ that the most necessary thing at this time is an intervention and suspension of all higher authorities for FUSINA to assume the direction of the penitentiary system and the handling of juvenile offenders “in order” to prevent the continuation of these acts of violence and death that we have seen in recent days. “The objective, explained the minister, is succeed in creating a new management system for prisons and juvenile centers in Honduras: «We must review everything that has to do with the process of handling inmates because there has been a lot of relaxation.
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