By Alexandra Valencia and Yury Garcia QUITO/GUAYAQUIL, Oct 25 (Reuters) – Gangs operating inside Ecuador’s prisons are taking advantage of state abandonment to expand their power, extorting inmates for access to services and threatening their lives with violence, prisoners’ families and human rights groups say. The prison system in the South American country has faced […]

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