The Inmates Are Running Venezuela’s Prisons. They’ve Created Autonomous Micro-Dictatorships.

The documentary La Causa is a raw look into these self-organized societies, complete with taxes, courts, and a strict “thug code.” és-Figueredo-Thomson/dp/B08KYH3CGB ------------------ Subscribe to our YouTube channel: Like us on Facebook: Follow us on Twitter: Reason is the planet’s leading source of news, politics, and culture from a libertarian perspective. Go to for a point of view you won’t get from legacy media and old left-right opinion magazines. ---------------- The inmates have overtaken many prisons in Venezuela, armed with automatic weapons and grenades. They are governed by criminal gangs led by a “pran,“ or kingpin, who strictly enforces the “thug code“ by which all prisoners must abide, or they will be shot in various