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In 1997, the prison was intervened by the National Penitentiary Institute (INPE) through Supreme Decree No. 005-96, which also reorganised the inmates' classification. [2] A resolution published on July 17, 2006, transferred control of the prison to INPE. Despite the prison's capacity for 450 inmates, it suffered from overcrowding. [3]
In 2009, the prison population totaled 44,800 inmates (0.15% of the national population), [3] though the nation's prisons were built for a capacity of 22,540. [4] 2,794 of the inmates were women. Only 17,297 of the inmates have been sentenced in court, while many of the rest are held in pretrial detention at police stations and judiciary buildings.
The prisoners in San Juan de Lurigancho, El Frontón, and the women's prison in Santa Mónica, who had tacit control of the prison interiors, rose up and took prison guards and three journalists as hostages. They demanded the immediate release of 500 people imprisoned for terrorism. García and his government were caught off-guard by the uprising.
Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center, also known as Pitchess Detention Center or simply Pitchess, is an all-male county detention center and correctional facility named in honor of Peter J. Pitchess located directly east of exit 173 off Interstate 5 in the unincorporated community of Castaic in Los Angeles County, California.
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The two inmates, at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in West Miami-Dade, Florida, were in solitary confinement. Florida Inmate Uses Air Vent To Get Pregnant, Gives Birth To ...