[not verified in body] Members of Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) continue to drill in their section of the prison.
In March a peace pact was signed that was broken when the following April the dismembered corpse of paramilitary leader Carlos Alberto León, an inmate of patio two, was found.
While the Cuerpo Técnico de Investigación (CTI) were conducting their due diligence and removing the body, on Wednesday April 26, 2000, an armed confrontation between paramilitaries from the Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia (AUC) and common criminals from yards 3, 4 and 5 of the La Modelo prison left a total of 32 dead, 17 injured and 17 missing..[2] The battle lasted for 12 hours between Thursday afternoon and Friday morning, in a day that is the bloodiest experienced in any Colombian prison.
[2] In this incident, weapons, explosives, cartridges, communication elements, and AUC insignia were seized, among other elements..[3] La battle started at 14:40,[2] when members of the self-defense groups of yards 3 and 5 learned of the shooting death of Yema Ospina Flórez, a relative of one of the members of "Los Priscos", a criminal gang from the time of Pablo Escobar, leader of the Cartel de Medellín who disappeared in 1993.
Faced with the impotence of the prison guards and knocking down walls and bars with the use of grenades, the paramilitaries entered yard 4.
[6] However, both INPEC and the Cuerpo Técnico de Investigación (CTI) of the prosecution service and the police denied the existence of such graves.
[9] On 16 May 2024, Elmer Fernandez, the prison's director who had been in office since 4 April, was shot dead by a motorcycled gunman while he was returning home from work in Bogota.