MONTEVIDEO: Six inmates died after a fire ripped via their cellular in a jail on the outskirts of Uruguay’s capital Montevideo, the interior ministry stated Wednesday. The purpose of the blaze at Santiago Vazquez penitentiary, the most important jail in the Latin American country, was unknown. Six charred our bodies have been found in a locked cell in an area where the opposite cells have been all open, the ministry stated. It brought that a prisoner from an adjacent cellular become taken to the jail health facility for remedy. A fire at the equal jail in December 2023 killed six humans. An investigation determined it turned into deliberately started, and four prisoners have been charged with murder. The prisons commissioner had warned of negative conditions at Santiago Vazquez penal complex, announcing a “lack of possibilities for rehabilitation and integration” turned into main to “cruel, inhuman or degrading remedy” of the prisoners.
