One country's plan to build a 20,000-inmate 'megaprison'
Honduras is one of the world's most violent countries, with a homicide rate of 34 per 100,000 inhabitants in 2023, almost six times the global average.
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About 30 prisons across Honduras currently hold some 21,000 inmates who would be transferred to the new facility "immediately," Hernandez said.
TEGUCIGALPA - Honduras will build a 20,000-capacity "megaprison", President Xiomara Castro announced on Friday, among a raft of measures to combat a "security emergency" in
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