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could only go outside 10 minutes on Mondays. For two years he was alone,
and afterwards he was with two other people, and since the cell only had two
cots, one of them had to sleep on the floor.
In “el Infiernito” he sleeps in Sector B4 and “he can live a little bit more.”
Due to the heat he cannot stay in his cell, but he has the possibility to spend
a lot of time outdoors. He exercises one hour every day. He goes out to the
hall to bathe or to work making wallets and purses, but the materials are not
given to him, he must buy them. The authorities only provide notebooks.
Water is scarce. The food is “really bad”, reason for which he gets sick to his
stomach. However, “his needs make him eat”. He receives three meals per
day, of which lunch is the best; at breakfast they give him coffee, bread and,
sometimes, cream of wheat; and for dinner they give him beans, bread, four
tortillas, and coffee. Lately the authorities have improved the quality of the
food.
He was subject to threats when he was in Granja Canadá and Sector A “for
the crime he was accused of.” He knew who was making those threats.
Currently, the threats are more moderate.
Before being transferred to Sector 11, he was in Sector A with two inmates
named Tomás Cerrate Hernández and Amilcar Cetino for almost a year. They
spoke of God and brought him close to the teachings of the church. They
became very close friends, shared their food and they taught him how to
make purses. Later, they were executed. He saw their executions on TV.
This made him panic and “he only thought of the time in which he would go to
the place they had gone.” After said executions, he was transferred to Sector
11 where “he started [his] short life” and he only hoped they would take his
family to see him.
He suffers of gastric ulcer, thus coffee and fat are not good for him. He has
been seen twice in the San Juan de Dios Hospital, but they have never
performed an ultrasound or X-rays. He has been given prescriptions but has
not been able to buy the medicine and they do not give them to him in the
prison, even though there is a nursing department, but it does not have
specialized medications.
He also considers that the media has hurt his family. The pressure of the
press and newspapers have depressed them and made them lose their
strength and have even caused one of the members of his next of kin a
psychological trauma.
The death penalty “starts killing the families.”
In his case it has
psychologically destroyed his family and affects his relationship with them.
He has separated himself from his family due to society, which has marked
them. He has not seen his children in a year and doesn’t have any type of
communication with them, because their mother doesn’t want it. The only
person who visits him every three or four months is his aunt. The most
difficult thing for him is being away from his family. If they were to revoke
the death penalty it would change his relationship with his family, since “with
the elimination of the death penalty, […] he feels […] the liberty [and] the
opportunity to move on.” He stated that he can be a good father and that his
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