VENEZUELA PRISON-BLINDS VENETIANS : PRECIS

 

In one of Venezuela's largest prisons, the police  made some startling discoveries during a raid last year.

They found machine guns and ammunition, but they also uncovered several restaurants, a nightclub, a swimming pool, a baseball field and a zoo.

Known as Tocron, the prison is in Aragua, a state southwest of Caracas, Venezuela's capital. It has been under the control of a group of prisoners who transformed the facility into a mini-city where convicts roamed freely, according to experts on the gang.

The World Students Society thanks Luis Ferre-Sadurni and Chelsia Rose Marcius.