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La Modelo (English: The Model [Prison]) is a prison in Bogotá, Colombia.With 11,000 inmates, the facility is known for its violence. [not verified in body] The prison's north wing accommodates left-wing rebels while the south wing has right-wing government supporters and paramilitaries.
On 21 March 2020, at least 23 prisoners were killed and 83 injured during a riot which erupted in La Modelo prison in Bogotá, Colombia, amid fears over spreading of SARS-CoV-2 through prison walls during the COVID-19 pandemic. [1]
Torres was then imprisoned in La Modelo prison in Bogotá, where he was later murdered. [6] It is believed that several inmates killed him using a firearm, shooting him 12 times. [7] Other versions suggest that in addition to being shot, he was also beaten and stabbed by sharp objects. [4]
A deadly riot broke out in a prison in Colombia's capital, leaving 23 inmates dead, authorities said Sunday, as tensions rise over the spread of the coronavirus in one of the most vulnerable ...
Bogotá prison riot: March 21, 2020 La Modelo prison, Bogotá 23 83 At least 23 prisoners were killed and 83 injured during a riot which erupted in La Modelo prison in Bogotá amid fears over spreading of SARS-CoV-2 through prison walls during the COVID-19 pandemic: Arauca, Cauca and Nariño massacres August 22, 2020 Arauca, Cauca and Nariño ...
On this day, July 22, 1992, President Cesar Gaviria of Colombia said that Pablo Escobar, one of the world's most powerful drug traffickers, had escaped from the resort-like prison where he had ...
For years, the man known as Otoniel was seen as one of the world's most dangerous drug lords, the elusive boss of a cartel and paramilitary group with a blood-drenched grip on much of northern ...
Colombia's prison system which have the capacity to hold 81,000 inmates currently houses about 97,000 per official figures. In March 2020 a riot in the La Modelo prison in Bogota, killed 24 inmates and injured 90 others over fears of COVID-19. The Tuluá prison houses about 1,267 inmates and the cell block where the fire occurred housed 180 ...