Venezuelan moms to Hugo Chávez: take care of our jailed sons

[naaman fletcher]

“We demand a solution!” the women chanted, over and over. They held signs reading, “No more death! No more hunger! No more injustice!”

Fanny Garcia, who was jailed six months for allegedly stealing a car, says she attended the march to demand basic human rights for her son and all the others sitting in overcrowded cells.

“You can make a mistake and end up in jail, but you are still a human being,” says Ms. Garcia, her voice rising with every injustice she lists. “They are not animals.”

Humberto Prado, the director of the non-profit Venezuelan Prison Observer, says that there are 32,000 inmates in the nation´s 33 prisons and penitentiaries, while there is only room for 12,500. That has led to human rights violations, squalid conditions, and more violence.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2010/0525/Venezuelan-moms-to-Hugo-Chavez-take-care-of-our-jailed-sons

Must be a mis-translation