TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — At least 16 prisoners died during fighting inside a juvenile detention center in Honduras on Sunday, two days after rioting at another prison killed 18 inmates, The latest bloody violence occurred at a maximum security prison in the municipality of El Porvenir, 116 kilometers from the Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa the task force was put in charge of managing the country’s 29 prisons and juvenile detention centers when the federal government declared a state of emergency throughout the National Prison System. Civilian officials in the system were suspended, and the special commission will seek to root out corruption and violence in prisons.
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