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01 August 2011

VENEZUELA: New Prison Minister May Free 20k Inmates.

                                           BBC
    Just days after 25 prisoners were killed in gang clashes at the El Rodeo prisons...new Minister of Prisons Iris Varela (above) announced that up to 40% of inmates could be released to ease prison overcrowding.
    She said that some 20,000 people convicted of minor crimes could be conditionally freed.
   Currently the nation's prisons hold 50,000 inmates.
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