In a room of approximately five square meters and with only one window 21 criminal proceedings are crammed into the detachment of the Regional Police, located in Plaza Lago shopping center next to Fleas.
"We are going hungry, we do not have food, we want them to transfer us as soon as possible. We eat banana shells to survive, "shouted several of the detainees who leaned out the window in which hung three hammocks.
The preventive detention room of the police station was turned into a jail cell, due to the fact that there are prisoners who have been detained for up to a year and with an open judicial process. They are those of greater antiquity those that enjoy the privilege to lie down in the hammocks and to perceive the fresh air.
The rest of the inmates sleep on the floor, some on thin mats. "We slept side by side and side because if we put ourselves face up we can not fit," shouted one of the detainees.
That is not the only group that remains detained at the police headquarters. An official who preferred not to be identified, but who expressed his annoyance, reported that five more people occupy the rest room of the officers. They are three women and two minors. "We want you to move them now."
The NGO Observatorio Venezolano de Prisiones (OVP) denounced the overcrowding of the detention centers in Venezuela and that both jails and state and municipal dungeons that house approximately 85 thousand people, some of them have died from malnutrition.
According to the latest report of the Venezuelan Observatory of Prisons (OVP), 95 percent of the prisons in Venezuela are at critical risk; and overcrowding is one of the main reasons for violence within prisons.
Iris Varela, Minister of Social Penitentiary Affairs, describes the figures of the NGO as "false".