RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Some 40% of prisoners detained in Ecuadorian jails have not been sentenced, representing 14,803 inmates at the moment, the director of the SNAI penitentiary service Bolívar Garzón said on Thursday during a hearing in the National Assembly.
In a debate on insecurity in Ecuadorian streets and the prison crisis, SNAI director Garzón said that the prison population exceeds 38,000 detainees, of which 37,100 are being held for crimes, 544 for failure to pay alimony and 542 for various misdemeanors.
The capacity in the national prison infrastructure is for 30,196 . . .
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