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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 26 July 2018

Uruguay: Porous prisons

Uruguay’s prisons are proving easy to escape from. According to official data from the interior ministry, an average of four inmates per month have managed to escape from the country’s prisons since the start of the year. The statistic has increased worries about the state of the national prison system at time when rising public insecurity remains a primary public concern.

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