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Inside the Venezuelan prison run by inmates - from rules to violence and hip-hop

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Venezuelan photographer has spent years visiting a jail in his home country that was run by the inmates themselves.Oscar Castillo had spent over seven years visiting the General Penitentiary of Venezuela, which is a prison capable of holding 750 inmates but at one point housed over 10 times that.Castillo, 40, was given access by the bosses of the prison after getting on good terms with them through constant communication.“It was abandoned by the official authorities but the prisoners were doing what they could to take care of the infrastructure and adapt it for their own needs and resources,” Castillo told the Daily Star.“It was a kind of constantly changing shantytown.

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