16 e) Statement of Inocencia del Valle Marín, mother of Edgard José Peña-Marín Edgar, her son was 22 years old when he was murdered, his case was under investigative proceeding. When the witness went to visit him, she was treated very badly. She was searched completely, she was ordered to take off her underwear, push and jump. Her son lived under “dreadful” conditions in the Detention Center of Catia. The place smelled of defecation and urine, of contaminated water. The inmates had no electric light, so they had to do the electric fittings themselves. Her son was in an observation chamber. There were “about one hundred or more men” sleeping together “packed like sardines,” and they had no bathrooms. Sometimes the witness took food to her son every eight days, because the food at the prison was extremely bad. Her son suffered from amebiasis during his detention, but he received no medical assistance. Their next of kin had to provide the inmates with the medicines necessary to cure themselves. After hearing what had happened, the witness went immediately to the prison. Once there she was told that those who wanted to know about the whereabouts of their next of kin should go to a hospital or to the morgue. She did not find her son either in the hospital or the morgue. On Wednesday December 1, 1992 she visited the prison and tried to take food and everything her son needed. One of her son’s mates told her that he had been shot in the head, supposedly, by a prison official who worked there. She went to the office of the public prosecutor with the assistance of COFAVIC. They had a list of missing people there, but her son did not appear in it. Afterwards, they called her to inform that his son had been buried in Los Teques graveyard, where she has been to take him some flowers. Anyway, in spite of all the steps they have taken, she does not know if he is really there or if his body was washed away by the Guaire River. Her life has changed since her son’s death: it has been very painful. She was not able to see him, not even to give him a last farewell. f) Statement of Douglas Rafael Liscano-Urbina, ex-inmate He was imprisoned in the Detention Center of Catia from April 1988 to November 1992. This prison had a very cold structure, no human being should ever serve his sentence there. There were five cellblocks in one wing and five in the other, North and South. The dining rooms were in the center and also a small internment place where they put people of age and underage. There were ten cells on each floor, and fourteen bunk beds in every cell, so each cell could hold 28 inmates, but in fact it lodged 60 to 70 prisoners at least. The inmates were on the floor and they even slept in the bathroom. There was a sport field in the yard but it could not be used as it served as a rubbish dump; the inmates threw their refuse into the yard. Those who practiced sport got ill. The cellblock where the witness was, held at least four hundred prisoners. The solitary confinement cells were in this section. These cells were small and they were kept in a terribly dirty condition. Contaminated water leaked through. The dining room was large, it had small benches and was in good condition. The kitchen was the worst part of that place, all the food they brought was horrible. They were given a “roll with bologna sausage and fororo without milk“ in the morning but nobody ate it.