The national from Europe and North American seem to end-up in Venezuelan prisons including Los Teques Prison for drug smuggling convictions. Still the trials of poverty in a land of plenty fearfully make the prisoners get prepared for 19th-century kind of prison conditions. Besides the lack of judicial and penitentiary systems, prisoners abroad locate themselves locked up in a weird land where they do not speak the language. Despite their families live in developed countries, the relatives are mostly poor, and can not conveniently support their imprisoned family members in Los Teques Prison. The pitiless world of Venezuela poison has nothing to offer to its prisoners and prisoners from foreign country has to face discrimination because of their nationality.

The hazards faced by prisoners in Los Teques Prison include, language barriers, slight medical care, and money demands that endanger their human rights and their very lives too. For instance we can see the example of a European prisoner in Venezuela who came across the awful luck of having all of the above stated perils come to affect on his deteriorating health.

I do have to take pills, which I don’t have because I have to buy them. This prisoner’s health issues begin with insufficient and bad food, and then it became worse because of language, and no money. In regards of medical care, this prisoner lacked any medicine and made available a doctor visit every once in a while.

Los Teques Prison

Los Teques Prison