A report Friday by the Inter-American Human Rights Commission warned that Honduran prison authorities had ceded control of prisons to inmates, citing a lack of manpower.
There are legal limits on who is properly viewed as a combatant and when war is an appropriate response to a threat. Those limits are rarely discussed.
Medium-size firms in particular are far behind on upgrades because they are large enough for a transition to be complex and yet small enough that they don't have staff dedicated to this kind of decision-making, analysts say.
According to the U.S. Census, roughly 80,000 Costa Ricans live in the United States, compared to more than 11 million Mexicans, the largest immigrant group.
On July 22, hundreds of prisoners, including senior al-Qaida figures, escaped from Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. On July 27, more than 1,000 detainees escaped from detention in Benghazi. A July 30 Taliban attack on a prison facility in northwest Pakistan freed more than 250 prisoners.