40 Most Powerful Images Of 2014

8. Pop-Up Prison

FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2014 file photo, a detainee rests, handcuffed to a slide, at a children's playground in a public park in Bogota, Colombia. Authorities have been holding some crime suspects in a public park in western Bogota's La Granja neighborho
Fernando Vergara/AP

Due to lack of room at a local detention centre in western Bogota's La Granja, a Columbian neighbourhood, authorities have had to resort to holding many crime suspects in a public park.

A detainee can be seen handcuffed to a slide in a children's playground. Prisoners suspected of crimes ranging from robbery to drug trafficking are kept at a makeshift encampment day and night, guarded by groups of officers.

 
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