[danielsan]

Colombian prison drain pipes yield over 100 dismembered corpses

BOGOTA – Remains of at least 100 dismembered prisoners and visitors have been found in drain pipes at a jail in Colombia’s capital that houses drug traffickers, Marxist rebels and paramilitaries, investigators said on Wednesday.

Body parts were found at La Modelo jail in Bogota, one of the Andean nation’s biggest penitentiaries, as well as in jails in the cities of Popayan, Bucaramanga and Barranquilla, said Caterina Heyck, an investigator at the attorney general’s office.

“The number of victims is unknown, but we know it’s over 100 and could be considerably higher,” she told reporters in Bogota. “Remains of prisoners, visitors and others were thrown in the drainage system.”

Colombian jails are among the most overcrowded and violent in Latin America and accommodate leftist guerrillas alongside their right-wing paramilitary enemies.

[Susan]

Couldn't find any photos of victims, but i'll keep looking. Here's some of the prison though and a little snippet from an article:

The courts of the Modelo prison in Bogotá are reporting the highest overcrowding.
Elpais.com.co | Colprensa

As part of the investigation conducted by the rape and torture of journalist Jineth Bedoya, the Attorney General's Office said investigating more than 100 cases of alleged disappearances in La Modelo prison in Bogota.

The announcement was made by the tax Caterina Heyck Puyana, director of Joint Specialized National Prosecutors, who said that people were missing in La Modelo prison in Bogota between 1999 and 2001.

"Since late last year, investigations were initiated for serious violations of human rights disappearance and dismemberment of several people, including prisoners, visitors and people outside the prison, whose remains were dumped in the sewer," said Hayck.

He said that in 2000, when the journalist for El Tiempo, Jineth Bedoya, was abused, tortured and kidnapped in prison, she was advancing research on these horrors occurred in the prison.

"In La Modelo prison occurred a dark phenomenon of disappearances. The victims came from different parts of the country," said prosecutor Caterina Heyck Puyana.

This investigation seeks to determine whether these same practices of disappearance occurred in four other prisons in the country. They also investigate whether the facts have occurred within a network of arms trafficking and corruption within the prison.

The first information about these cases would have been made ​​by alias Baker, former paramilitary who acep tó their responsibility for the crimes of kidnapping, torture and violent sexual assault against Bedoya journalist.

Bedoya jineth welcomed the decision of the Prosecutor to investigate these atrocities but said this should have happened years ago. "That is a debt that the state has not only Jineth Bedoya but with hundreds of victims of La Modelo prison."

"I managed to document 16 missing with names and testimonies of their families. According to information from the inmates themselves of La Modelo prison, these people were dismembered and thrown to the sewer. This happened under the complicity of officials INPEC, police and people working with guerrillas and paramilitaries, "said Jineth Bedoya, now deputy editor of the newspaper El Tiempo.

He said the process to sue the state for its case makes its way to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.

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[wmbondurant]

The smell would have to be horrific .

[Steve]

So prisoners started disappearing and nobody thought to investigate? Violent prisoners just weren't there anymore and nobody thought it odd?

*Note to self, don't commit crime in Colombia...

[Torious]

Lovely! That'll be one serious plumbing bill!

[spudigitti]

Que tal hombre get in the toilet....

[Azimuth]

well, that should provide some incentive to stay on the straight and narrow in Columbia.

[Oswald2001]

Originally Posted by Torious ↗

Lovely! That'll be one serious plumbing bill!

Oh yeah.

[winvens]

Originally Posted by Top Gear ↗

So prisoners started disappearing and nobody thought to investigate? Violent prisoners just weren't there anymore and nobody thought it odd?

Sad, but that's Colombian corruption for you. Most were probably involved in the cocaine trade.

Originally Posted by Oswald2001 ↗

Oh yeah.

Not even the best plumbing technology in the world could grind up and flush out hundreds of dead bodies. So gross.

[Sharon]

Imagine the utter STINK of the place

Crazy. Good luck flushing all the putrefaction out of the system.