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The prison is located in Villavicencio, about 100 km south-east of Bogotá.
He said that when the break out began, there were 1,835 inmates at the prison, more than double its capacity.
Mr Rodríguez was addressing concerns about the break out at Villavicencio jail during a virtual session of the local assembly in Meta province.
He alleged that the Colombian state had “abandoned” the jail.
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The prison director said 1,750 prisoners were currently being held at the prison which the overcrowding made it difficult to slow the spread of the virus.
” The locations we use to isolate [inmates] are not ideal,” he stated, adding that jail authorities were moving detainees into one of the carpentry workshops to create more space.
To make matters worse, there is also a scarcities of medical professionals at the prison.
Last week, Colombia’s director of jail services, Lissette Cervantes, stated that medical professionals operating at Villavicencio jail had given up since they had actually not been given the necessary protective equipment.
” It’s not due to the fact that they simply felt like it or even because they were afraid, they simply can’t go vulnerable into what resembles a war [against the virus],” Ms Cervantes stated.
Nationwide, Colombia has more than 11,500 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 479 individuals have actually passed away, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University
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