Last week, Ecuador announced that it would start with the military forces from the prisons, more than a year and a half after having deployed them to break criminal control. The new mark the beginning of the end of a policy which was an inflection point in the country's criminal history.
James Bargent's investigation journalist and Ecuadorian of Insight Crime, Karol Noroña, explains why the army has intervened in prisons in the first place, which the intervention has changed – and what it did not do – and what is the next step for a penitentiary system which had become an operational basis for organized crime.
