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Police regain control of Ecuador prison after riot carnage
Police gained control of an Ecuador prison on Sept. 30 where rioting has left at least 118 inmates dead, some of them decapitated, as rival drug gangs went to war armed with guns and grenades.
Another 86 inmates were wounded, six of them critically, according to Ecuador's prisons authority, in one of the deadliest prison battles in South American history.
Heads roll at Avlona Prison after inmate clashes
The director of the Avlona Prison in northern Athens and the head guard of its juvenile correctional facility were sacked Tuesday over a violent riot there last Friday which left 13 people injured.
It was the second such incident at the prison's juvenile correctional facility within the last month.
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Beatings, Deplorable Living Conditions at Bulgaria's Boytchinovtsi Juvenile Prison - AFP
Agence France-Presse (AFP) has devoted a publication to the appalling living conditions and the complaints of repeated beatings at the Boytchinovtsi Correctional Home for juvenile prisoners.
The article, which is accompanied by a video, has reached German and Romanian media outlets.