Chilean authorities appear to be losing control of the country’s prisons, as growing overcrowding tempts criminals into challenging security measures behind bars. After years of steady decline, Chile’s prison population has increased for 25 consecutive months, according to figures from the Chilean Gendarmerie (Gendarmería de Chile), the country’s prison authority. “We now have 54,000 prisoners. It’s an explosive increase in a very short space of time,” said Chile’s justice minister, Luis Cordero Vega, in an interview late last year.
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