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Venezuela

There’s always a party, everyone is armed, and prisoners sometimes engage in gladiatorial fights to the death.
Incarceration 2012 5 11 j
CARACAS, Venezuela — Through the darkness, noise and the bustling crowd, it takes a moment before you notice that everyone here is carrying a machine gun, a rifle or pistol — not slung over their backs or tucked into their pants, but menacingly prone. Others toss grenades up and down or sharpen knives while enjoying the cocktail of drugs and music.

Venezuela

President Hugo Chavez has failed to reform the country's violent, overcrowded jails.