The spreading of the novel coronavirus is shaking Latin America’s notoriously overcrowded, unruly prisons, threatening to turn them into an inferno, according to an AP report.
The Puente Alto prison in downtown Santiago, Chile, had the largest of Latin America’s prison virus outbreaks so far, with more than 300 reported cases. The prison’s 1,100 inmates are terrified. Social distancing is hard to practice in jail.
“They are all in contact with each other,” said prison nurse Ximena Graniffo.
Read full AP report here.
