Chile to end Pinochet henchmen’s pampered prison life of tennis and barbecues

Punta Peuco - where military human rights offenders enjoy privileged conditions - set to join public prison network

Inmates at an infamous high-security military prison in Chile, which houses the perpetrators of dictatorship-era human rights crimes, are set to lose their privileged conditions under plans to incorporate the prison into the public prison network.

President Gabriel Boric announced on Monday that Punta Peuco is being transformed into a regular prison to help deal with overcrowding in the penitentiary system.