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Prison Conditions in Venezuela
Loaded on Oct. 15, 1997
published in Prison Legal News
October, 1997, page 12
Human Rights Watch has been investigating prison conditions throughout the world for the last 10 years. Punishment Before Trial: Prison Conditions in Venezuela, issued in March 1997, is the 29th resulting report to appear.HRW/Americas investigators spent three weeks in Venezuela in March 1996 during which they visited 11 of ...
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