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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. 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 ...
La Modelo; N. National Penitentiary and Prison Institute (Colombia) This page was last edited on 22 March 2022, at 07:17 (UTC). Text ...
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 former TD Bank employee based in Florida was arrested and charged with facilitating money laundering to Colombia, New Jersey's attorney general said on Wednesday, in the first such arrest since ...
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 ...
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]
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 ...