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Security & Strategic Review - December 2025
ECUADOR: Unfinished maximum-security prison begins receiving inmates
Reforming Ecuador’s violent and overcrowded prison system, which serves as a headquarters for some of the country’s main gangs, is an urgent priority in President Daniel Noboa’s efforts to confront organised crime. Noboa’s blueprint for a new penal model is the harsh system in force in El Salvador, which hosted Ecuadorean officials in April this year to advise them on prisons policy. The result is the Cárcel del Encuentro, a new maximum-security prison that opened in Ecuador’s western province of Santa Elena on 10 November.
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