Leo Valladares, a high-ranking human rights official in Honduras, criticized police inactivity in the country´s prisons as more than 70 percent of escapees remain free.
According to Valladares, only 134 of the 436 fugitives who escaped from prisons between 1999 and 2004 were returned to jail which proves the inefficiency of the institution.
Honduran newspapers headlined the declarations of the human rights representative Thursday on the growing insecurity, uncertainty and police corruption in the penitentiary centers.
He stated that most prisoners possess firearms, knives and other types of weapons, the main cause of the deaths of 155 individuals in 2004.
Valladares called on the government to explain the issue of insecurity in the prisons as well as the growing number of deaths and weapons among the prisoners.
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