The transfer comes after the Ecuadorian prosecutor's workplace requested the federal government to take "urgent measures" to handle the state of affairs, in accordance with a put up on the company's official Twitter account. 
Ecuadorian police started activating safety protocols Friday night time after studies of gunshots and attainable confrontations between inmates on the prison, in accordance with Guayas Governor Pablo Arosemena in an announcement posted to the official Facebook web page of the Guayas Province authorities.The lethal clashes seem like an occasion of gang violence, in accordance with the governor, who stated inmates "not only used weapons and detonations, but they tried to suffocate [other prisoners], burned mattresses, and more."
Prosecutors stated "68 prisoners were killed and another 25 wounded" within the violence that broke out Saturday on the Litoral Penitentiary, one in every of Ecuador's largest prisons within the coastal metropolis of Guayaquil, the identical facility that noticed 118 folks killed in clashes in September.
Ecuador's prison system has been beneath a state of emergency since September's lethal clashes. More than 300 inmates have been killed in prison violence this 12 months, in accordance with figures from Ecuador's prison service SNAI.
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