Santa Ana prison
The Santa Ana prison (or Centro Penitenciario de Occidente) is a prison in the Venezuelan state of Táchira .
The prison was built in 1978 for 850 inmates. There are currently around 1963 prisoners there.
Violence in prison
In 2007, around 30 people died in riots there. 21 people were killed there in 2010 and 31 people in 2011. In July 2012 the director of the institution was killed along with her husband.
According to several non-governmental organizations , eight people were killed and over fifty seriously injured on May 30, 2014 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deaths between 2010 and 2011 ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (El Carabobeño)
- ↑ Head of Santa Ana killed ( memento of the original from November 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 8 Deaths in Santa Ana Prison (Últimas Noticias) ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Coordinates: 7 ° 38 ′ 30 ″ N , 72 ° 17 ′ 3.7 ″ W.