Venezuela inmates occupy prison roof and set fire to mattresses to highlight alleged abuse

<p>Inmates at Barinas prison allege they were peacefully protesting when prison staff opened fire, leaving some wounded</p><p>Inmates at Venezuela’s western Barinas prison staged a protest on its roof on Sunday, piling flaming mattresses and calling for the removal of the facility’s director, whom they accused of overseeing guards as they shot unarmed prisoners.</p><p>“We want justice. They are shooting us, the guards and the wardens,” a prisoner said in a video shared by the Venezuelan Observatory of Prisons, a local NGO, on X, in which a man is seen with a bullet wound in his chest.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/25/venezuela-inmates-occupy-prison-roof-protest-alleged-abuses">Continue reading...</a>