Ecuador’s military was sent in to seize control of the country’s prisons last month after two major gang leaders escaped and criminal groups quickly set off a nationwide revolt that paralyzed the country. In Brazil last week, two inmates with connections to a major gang became the first to escape from one of the nation’s five maximum-security federal prisons, officials said. Officials in Colombia have declared an emergency in its prisons after two guards were killed and several more targeted in
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More than half of deaths in federal prisons over the course of eight years were suicides — and many of those could’ve been prevented, a scathing new report released Thursday by a Justice Department watchdog has found. After assessing the circumstances surrounding the deaths of inmates in federal prisons from 2014 through 2021, watchdog investigators found “several operational and managerial .