Risk of HIV amid squalid prison’s living conditions

Squalid, cramped conditions in Peruvian prisons see inmates forced to sleep in toilets and at risk of contracting diseases such as HIV, campaigners have claimed.

As two young women arrested in Peru on suspicion of cocaine trafficking face a potential three years in prison awaiting trial, the Prisoners Abroad group warned that overcrowding is at such critical levels inmates’ face serious health dangers.

If sentenced to prison, Melissa Reid and Michaella McCollum-Connolly could face years behind bars.