Overview
- A power outage preceded an attempted riot at Ancón I on Nov. 4, with inmates chanting for visits and setting small fires before guards restored order.
- Five prisoners from cell 110 were identified, subdued and moved to a disciplinary area after the cell door was damaged by repeated blows.
- Since the Oct. 21 emergency began, more than 350 searches have been carried out across 68 prisons, seizing 79 phones, 173 electronic accessories, over 500 liters of fermented alcohol, 428 bladed weapons and about 2.7 kg of drugs.
- INPE says it has conducted over 2,000 searches nationwide in under four months as part of a stepped‑up campaign to disrupt criminal activity inside prisons.
- Visitor screening has been tightened with more than 800 people checked at prison gates, leading to the confiscation of 227 phones, 636 accessories and roughly 2.4 kg of drugs, while INPE chief Iván Paredes remains under an anti‑corruption probe linked to alleged bribery audios.