09.09.2023
The Timebomb That Exploded Twice: Behind The Massacres in Honduras' Women's Prison
The events that unfolded the morning of June 20, 2023, at the National Female Penitentiary for Social Adaptation (Penitenciaría Nacional Femenina de Adaptación Social - PNFAS), located 40 minutes outside Tegucigalpa in the town of Tamara, may have been the deadliest massacre ever recorded in a female prison in Latin America.
At least 46 female inmates were killed amid a fire and a hail of bullets from alleged Barrio 18 gang members who had managed to break out of their cells to attack their rivals in the MS13, according to Honduran authorities and media.
For the women of the PNFAS, the massacre was not entirely unexpected. For months, they had reported increasing tension between gangs.
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