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CIUDAD BOLIVAR, VENEZUELA – APRIL 2013: Inmates sleeping in “La guerrilla”. This is the name of this area of the prison. It is a section of excluded inmates, normally due his drug addiction. This is the prison population which is living in extreme conditions. Those who break the codes of coexistence are confined to this site.
The Vistahermosa prison with a capacity for 650 inmates and currently imprisoned more than 1500 inmates.
The 30 Venezuelan prisons have a capacity for 14.500 prisioners but officially there are 44.420 prisoners, so the prisons are 300 percent overcrowded
(Photo by Sebastián Liste/ Reportage by Getty Images)