Congress Panel Moves to Disrupt Prison Extortion Rings
Published on Honduras Daily · Jun 15, 2026 · Originally reported June 15, 2026 by Congreso Nacional
Congress's Telecommunications Commission is advancing reforms to stop inmates from running extortion schemes by cellphone, including penalties for satellite companies and prison officials who let contraband devices into the facilities.
An auto-translated English version isn’t available for Congreso Nacional, so this opens the original in Spanish. Honduras Daily curates and summarizes; the reporting is theirs.