The search operations set up by the National Police (PN) this past weekend in San Joaquín, Panamá Viejo, and Mañanitas, yielded the re-capturing of three fugitives that recently escaped from La Joyita prison.
According to a press release from the PN, the first capture took place in the neighborhood of 8 de Septiembre in Mañanitas, when [...]

By JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ PINILLA for La Prensa – Panama’s National Assembly approved on third reading early Saturday morning a new law that establishes a maximum prison sentence of 50 years.
The current Penal Code establishes a maximum penalty of 35 years. With the new law penalties for offenses committed by a single person or independently can [...]

Responding to the recent reforms of the Criminal Code, Vice-President of the Republic, Juan Carlos Varela, informed on TVN Channel 2 news that while he is an advocate of crime prevention, he is in agreement with the increase in prison sentences.
The VP argued that an increase in prison time for convicted murderers is necessary, because [...]

The government recently announced their plans to build a “prison city” on the 2,000-hectare lot currently occupied by the La Joya Prison Complex.
The success of the $130 million project will depend on the administration and implementation of the accompanying social rehabilitation programs established under Law 55, said penitentiary system director, Diomedes Kaa.
According to the official, [...]

Turkish ‘Today’s Zaman’ published article about detainment of Panama-flagged ‘Buket’ in Georgia with headline ‘Turkey-Abkhazia relations may harm Turkish-Georgian friendship’.
According to the edition, ‘Turkey is concerned with the fate of a Turkish citizen, the captain of the ship Buket, who was sentenced to 24 years in prison by a Georgian court’.
The article also reads that [...]

By Manuel Vega Loo for La Prensa – Two bus drivers, 23 year old Rubén Darío Robert and 35 year old Donald Alberto González, were sentenced today to 40 months in prison for causing an accident that killed two people. The accident was the product of a race between two buses on the Torrijos-Carter to [...]