Official video showed hundreds of shirtless male inmates, many tattooed and with their heads shaved, arranged on the floor of Honduras’ high-security Tamara prison with their arms over their …
at a women’s detention center last week, officials said.
Official video showed hundreds of shirtless male inmates, many tattooed and with their heads shaved, arranged on the floor of Honduras’ high-security Tamara prison with their arms over their heads, guarded by heavily armed soldiers. “Our mission is to defeat organized crime inside the prisons and we are going after the intellectual authors operating from outside,” Defense Minister Jose Manuel Zelaya said in a tweet.
Members of the Military Police of Public Order remove inmates from the yard at Tamara prison in Honduras on June 26, 2023.In Honduras, some 20,000 inmates coexist in 26 overcrowded prisons, with a United Nations report saying that the country’s prisons are 34.2% over capacity.
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