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Security & Strategic Review October 2011 (ISSN 1741-4202)
VENEZUELA: Prisons’ minister in confrontation with the judiciary
Iris Varela, Venezuela’s minister of penitentiary affairs, has publicly threatened to secure the dismissal of any judges who stand in the way of her drive to speed up the trials of prison inmates who have been charged with minor offences, the first step towards reducing the gross overcrowding of the country’s 34 prisons. She has begun by appointing a group of 500 specialists to ‘evaluation councils’ to review the situation of inmates and identify those whose cases should be speeded up. A bottleneck is already looming: the judiciary does not have enough personnel to handle this.
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