Andean Group - June 2016 (ISSN 1741-4466)

At the start of last month, the regional media reported that a meeting took place in Bolivia between representatives from the prison systems in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru which produced the agreement to set up a network aimed at streamlining penitentiary practices with international norms. Organised by the United Nations (UN) Office on Drugs and Crime (Unodc), the meeting took place as prison conditions across the Andean countries continued to attract major concern for falling below internationally accepted levels.

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