On 6 March, the US Congressional Research Service published a briefing paper on Panama –
https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10430
As I have said before, Panama does not often make the mainstream media in the UK. However, today saw an article in The Guardian about a man, jailed in what was then a truly awful prison in 2012, designed a recycling scheme so that prisoners at La Joyita, one of the country’s largest prisons, would collect, separate, recycle and sell waste; and their work would earn them reduced sentences. Prison authorities and even gang leaders cooperated, and the project at the prison proved a success – 10 years on, 500 prisoners are now involved. In 2016, the prisoner was granted a presidential pardon for his work and, on his release, he extended the scheme into a non-profit organisation, employing former inmates who collect waste in Panama City and turn it into compost.
7 MARCH 2024
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