Facebook Twitter Google+ LinkedIn The prisoners of the Turi correctional unit in Cuenca have signed a “peace agreement,” promoted by the National Service for Comprehensive Attention to Persons Deprived of Liberty and Adolescent Offenders (SNAI). According to SNAI, this is an instrument of pacification, to which prisoners adhere voluntarily for their well-being and that of […]
Inmates of the Turi sign a “peace agreement” after 6 prison massacres over the last year-and-a-half
Published on August 08, 2022
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