Panama Will Use "Mobile Cells" (Shipping Containers) To Ease Prison Overcrowding
(Panama-Guide ) By Yuriel Sagel for the Panama America - Crisis. In all of the country's prisons, the prison population exceeds its structural capacity. The national government is planning to implement a program in the country using "temporary prison cells" built out of shipping containers. According to the director of the Penitentiary System, Diomedes Kaa, the containers would be first placed in the province of Colon, where there is a serious overcrowding problem.