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Ana María Arévalo, 1er premio, 2019

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  • POLI-VALENCIA, CARABOBO - January 2017 A transgender woman shows her wounds and scars through the bars of her cell. She is being held prisoner like a man, which means that she has to wait for her preliminary trial with male prisoners who often abuse her.
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  • POLI-VALENCIA, CARABOBO. - March 2018<br />
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“Eternal days” is the description that one of the already judged female prisoners uses to refer to the time of serving her sentence inside this center instead of a state prison. Most of these women have children outside the prison that do not visit them. Daniela (center, with a pink shirt) is serving a 4-year sentence for robbery while her daughter has leukemia.
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  • ANA MARIA CAMPOS II PRISON, MARACAIBO. - December 2018<br />
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A group of female detainees warms up before doing sports guarded by a custodian inside a “closed” prison - or a center of feminine formation, how the ministry of the popular power for the prison service calls it -. Only the already judged female detainees can go to this kind of prison. In this facilities they are not overcrowded, they have food, water and medical attention. They receive classes, do sports and cook. These women are not allowed to make or receive phone calls and the visitation days are only once a month.
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  • CICPC EL HATILLO, CARACAS. - February 2017<br />
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Betania hugs her daughter on visitation days. She received humanitarian help, which allows her to breastfeed her child once a day. The Venezuelan constitution permits a child of a female prisoner to stay with her until he/she is three years old, but these centers do not count as such facility. Betania suffers from depression and anemia; the father of the child is serving a long sentence in the Tocorón prison. In February 2017 she was released and in January 2018 she had left the country to find better opportunities in Colombia. Her daughter stayed in Venezuela with the paternal grandmother.
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  • ANA MARIA CAMPOS II PRISON, MARACAIBO. - December 2018<br />
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A woman inside a “closed” prison in Maracaibo - the border city between Venezuela and Colombia - helps arrange the net to play volleyball. Their schedules include playing sports along with receiving classes, motivational and disciplinary workshops and arts and crafts. The purpose of these centers is to reform women and avoid relapse. They get redemptions if they behave properly to get their sentence reduced.
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  • POLI-VALENCIA, CARABOBO - March 2018<br />
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Maria kisses her daughter on visitation hours. She is 35 years old and is charged with robbery. She goes to therapy three times a week. While the beginning of the trials keep on being delayed, the condition of these women inside this precinct in the center of Valencia, a city on northcenter of the country, has improved slightly between 2017 and 2018. They are now permitted to have a cellphone, hairdressing utensils and a 3-hour recreation time outside their cell. Conjugal visitations are not allowed to female detainees, although one of them got pregnant while being inside the center with another male detainee; they had intercourse in the reception office.
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  • EL VALLE, CARACAS. - January 2017<br />
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“Chinatown” is the preventive center of detention, which guards most women in the metropolitan area of Venezuela. A total of 60 women, including a pregnant inmate in her 1st month, are waiting for their trials inside this precinct.
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  • POLI-VALENCIA, CARABOBO - February 2017<br />
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Eight-month-pregnant Jakelin Rivero, 21 years old, charged with robbery, waits to have a bath with buckets of water that other prisoners have brought for them at an improvised outdoor toilet made from a cardboard by the police. About a hundred detainees use the same toilet bowl and shower in the same place.
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  • LA YAGUARA CENTER OF DETENTION. - March 2018<br />
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Beauty has always been important in Venezuelan culture. Inside the centers of preventive detention, women take care of their looks even if they do not have mirrors or visitors.
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