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FROM
CUBA
Interior Ministry official at the center
or prison corruption
HAVANA, Cuba, October 25 (Roberto Santana
Rodríguez / www.cubanet.org) - The
director of the Valle Grande prison on the
outskirts of Havana, Interior Ministry Major
Juan Guevara Toledano, is at the center
of corruption at the facility, making sure
inmates are charged, in dollars, for privileges
such as access to phone calls and beds.
The facility's wards, with a capacity of
123 inmates, currently house more than 200
inmates, forcing many to bunk on the floor.
Reports also cite decomposing food and poor
quality drinking water.
Guevara Toledano takes no interest in prison
conditions, allowing inmates to go without
medical attention, diverting medicines for
personal purposes, and allowing guards to
abuse prisoners.
Guevara, according to reports, does make
sure "services" such as access
to phones (one dollar, U.S. is the going
rate) bedding (20 dollars) marital privileges
((25 dollars) are charged for.
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