Ecuador commission to investigate prison violence-president

FILE PHOTO: Family members react as police on motorcycles leave the Penitenciaria del Litoral prison, where prisoners were killed and injured during a riot, in Guayaquil, Ecuador November 15, 2021. REUTERS/Santiago Arcos/File Photo

QUITO (Reuters) - Ecuadorean President Guillermo Lasso on Thursday announced an expert commission to investigate and help end prison violence that has killed more than 300 people incarcerated in the country this year.

Lasso, a conservative ex-banker, declared a state of emergency in the prison system in September, after 119 inmates died in violent confrontations at the Litoral penitentiary in coastal Guayaquil.