This event came a day after a shooting that left three inmates injured.
The National Service for Attention to Persons Deprived of Liberty (SNAI) ruled on these incidents without specifying whether any injuries or damage occurred.
The facility stated that security protocols are still active at the prison and that they conduct surveillance to ensure the integrity of inmates.
From jails, gangs like Los Chone Killers, Los Choneros, Los Lobos and Los Tiguerones are trying to control drug trafficking in the country, while police officers claim to have seized more than 150 tons of narcotics so far this year.
Litoral Prison has been the scene of some of the largest massacres in Ecuadorian prisons since 2020, killing more than 450 prisoners, stemming from clashes between rival gangs that contest internal control of the detention centers.
Ecuador is suffering from a prison and security crisis, which the executive branch blames on disputes between criminal gangs over drug trafficking control.
Violence also spread to the streets, particularly in the coastal region, from whose ports drugs are shipped to the US and Europe.
A wave of insecurity is emerging with frequent robberies, murders, extortions, kidnappings, bomb threats and other crimes, while citizens are demanding comprehensive action from President Guillermo Lasso’s government to combat this wave.
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