The Ministry of the Interior in Panama is reconvening the tender for the design, construction and equipment of the new Colon Penitentiary Complex.
Due to complaints by the contestants, the public purchase process has been canceled repeatedly, with the latest one occurring in October of last year, when thethree participating consortiums were disqualified.
Guatemala will spend between $6 to $8 million to improve the El Boqueron, Cuilapa, Santa Rosa and El Infiernito prisons.
With the support of the American government, Guatemala is receiving an assessment on prisons, with 6 to 8 months projected for the installation of the modules.
The article by Rodrigo Perez published in Siglo XXI, says that "the Minister of Governance, Salvador Gandara, said that 'the high impact prisons' will be used to hold inmates linked to crimes such as kidnap, drug trafficking, and crimes on women."