The 36-year-old was attacked by two inmates while in a common area of notorious Challapalca Prison, where the country’s most dangerous inmates are held, last week. When other inmates joined the ...

"He made a lot of enemies because he’s such an a--hole." Van der Sloot is serving time in Peru's mountaintop Challapalca prison, a place Altez previously said he hates so much he was willing to ...

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It may, however, be connected to gang rules inside of the Challapalca Prison, where he's being held, Altez said. The Challapalca maximum-security prison, where Joran Van der Sloot is serving a 28 ...

Joran van der Sloot was “severely beaten” in a Peruvian prison over the weekend, RadarOnline.com has learned. The startling incident reportedly took place inside the Challapalca Prison where ...

The head of the prison was dismissed after his escape, said the INPE, and security reinforced. Authorities launched a manhunt. The prison's last escape took place in 2017.

Máximo Altez, van der Sloot's lawyer, said is client was being taken by land from the Challapalca prison in Peru's southern Andes to the Piedras Gordas prison on the outskirts of Lima.