A Venezuelan mother: even prisoners have rights

“You can make a mistake and end up in jail, but you are still a human being."

Fanny Garcia, a Venezuelan mother demonstrating with mothers and wives in Caracas Monday to demand basic human rights for her son and others in Venezuela's overcrowded prisons.

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