QUITO—President Guillermo Lasso renewed a state of emergency throughout Ecuador’s prison system on Monday, extending it for 30 days as the country grapples to control jail violence which has left scores of inmates dead. Lasso first imposed a state of emergency in penitentiaries at the end of September due to violence at the Penitenciaria del actions. Litoral prison, where fighting between criminal gangs in the last two months has left more than 180 prisoners dead. Ecuador’s armed forces will continue to support police in controlling prisons. Following the most recent incident at the Penitenciaria del Litoral, located in the city of Guayaquil, a combined force of 1,000 police officers and soldiers entered the prison. The Constitutional Court has questioned the measures rolled out across prisons, saying that the crisis will require more than temporary emergency actions. The gangs operating inside prisons are linked to drug trafficking, authorities say. The decree …