All prison staff held by inmates at prisons across Ecuador have been freed following military operations to retake control over the weekend, the SNAI prisons agency has confirmed.Some 158 guards and 20 administrative staffers were taken hostage last Monday in at least seven prisons as the country grapples with an escalating security crisis sparked by new policy aimed at tackling the country's vicious drug gangs.A guard was reported to have died following confrontation with inmates at a prison in El Oro province on Saturday. But by the evening, President Daniel Noboa publicly
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