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100 Plus Killed in Venezuelan Prison Riots

Loaded on March 15, 1994 published in Prison Legal News March, 1994, page 15
Filed under: Prison Rebellion, International, Prisoners-International. Location: Venezuela.
At least l09 prisoners have died and 54 remain injured after a group of inmates started a fire at Sabaneta prison in Maracaibo, Venezuela, on Jan. 3. Sabaneta prison is racially segregated, with about 800 Guajiro Indians on one side and some 2,000 non-Indians on the other. The fire was ...

 

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