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    Home / News / World News / At least five dead in prison violence in eastern Honduras
    At least five dead in prison violence in eastern Honduras
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    At least five dead in prison violence in eastern Honduras

    By Varnika Sharma
    Jun 18, 2021
    12:55 pm
    At least five dead in prison violence in eastern Honduras
    The prison holds members of the MS-13 and Barrio 18 gangs

    At least five people were killed when gunfire erupted inside a maximum-security prison in eastern Honduras, according to an official in the federal prosecutor's office who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly. The incident occurred around 8 am on Thursday in the prison in Moroceli, El Paraiso, known as "La Tolva," or The Hopper.

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    Media outlets posted videos of sound of gunfire inside prison

    The prison holds members of the MS-13 and Barrio 18 gangs. It was not immediately clear if all of the dead were prisoners. The federal prison system has not commented on the incident. Local media outlets posted videos of the sound of gunfire inside the prison. There were also reports that a grenade had detonated.

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    The country lacks a real prison policy: Security analyst

    The capital's Hospital Escuela admitted 15 wounded prisoners and one guard, who had been shot in the leg, said hospital spokeswoman Juliett Chavarria. Other prisoners were routed to another hospital nearer the prison. Security analyst Ra l Pineda Alvarado said Honduras struggles to stop prison violence because the prison police is corrupt and the country lacks a real prison policy.

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    Those running the prisons are corrupt: Alvarado

    "They just built prisons and increased the prison population without a real rehabilitation system and the other factor is the corruption of the people running the prisons," Alvarado said. The prisons aren't rehabilitation centers, they are centers where the inmates come to be even more corrupted and violent, which is an expression of what happens outside in the rest of society, he said.

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