6. Columbia
We are continuing our list of countries with the worst jails and prisons in the world with Columbia and its penitentiaries which have reached their breaking point as well. The most overcrowded is Riohacha prison originally built for 100 prisoners. It is overcrowded by 438%. The situation is the same will all other Columbian prisons, but the government is trying to solve the problem by releasing inmates who committed minor offenses. Prisoners often turn to violent methods of solving their quarrels. While investigating disappearances of at least 100 people in La Modelo, one of the Columbian biggest and overpopulated prisons, authorities have found that it is very likely that dismembered bodies of these people are rotting somewhere in the sewage system beneath the jail.
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