Overview
- INPE’s chief confirmed a newly registered six‑year sentence for Vladimiro Montesinos, overturning expectations of a 2026 release and setting his exit for 2032.
- More than 900 officers carried out a simultaneous sweep of all 68 prisons, seizing cellphones, drugs and sharp objects while dismantling clandestine electrical hookups.
- The Justice Ministry said it is evaluating listening to and supervising prisoners’ phone calls as part of measures to disrupt criminal coordination from inside prisons.
- INPE acknowledged that only 30 of the country’s 68 prisons have signal blockers and that some do not work properly, with the contractor’s performance under review.
- Prison personnel reported death threats following tighter controls, and the national prison workers’ union announced an indefinite strike starting November 13.