



The tally will be made by two teams, one of which will work from the north and the other from the south, and they will join forces in the city of Guayaquil, where the Coastal Prison, the country’s largest, is located and where the bloodiest and most macabre incidents among prisoners occurred last year. The census was launched in the prison in Tulcan, the capital of northern Carchi province, and will take about three months, according to the national prison service (SNAI). Quito, Aug 22 (EFE).- Ecuador on Monday began its first-ever census of its prison population, registering the country’s more than 32,000 inmates housed in 36 prisons, where since 2020 more than 400 of them have been killed in assorted clashes between rival criminal gangs.
