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(TODAY VENEZUELA via Insightcrime.org) The recent discovery of a mass grave in a Venezuela prison highlights the dangerous conditions that prevail in the country’s penitentiary system, as well as the inability of authorities to effectively maintain order in penal facilities.
Venezuela’s General Penitentiary, the site of the mass grave
At least 14 bodies have been found in a mass grave in Venezuela’s General Penitentiary in the state of Guarico, according to a March 11 press release from the Attorney General’s Office.
The first of the bodies were discovered on March 9, during activities aimed at upgrading the prison, which had been closed for construction for several months.
Carlos Nieto, the director of the prisoners’ rights organization Una Ventana a la Libertad (A Window to Freedom), told Agence France-Presse that
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