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Venezuela: Amid Despair in a Venezuelan Prison, Strains of Hope From a Music Program

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

June 23, 2008 Los Teques Journal Amid Despair in a Venezuelan Prison, Strains of Hope From a Music Program By SIMON ROMERO NY Times LOS TEQUES, Venezuela ? When Nurul Asyiqin Ahmad was taken seven months ago to her cell at the National Institute of Feminine Orientation, a prison perched on a hill in this city of slums on the outskirts of Caracas, learning how to play Beethoven was one of the last things on her mind. ?The despair gripped me, like a nightmare had become my life,? said Ms. Ahmad, 26, a shy law student from Malaysia who claims she is innocent of charges of trying to smuggle cocaine on a flight from Caracas to Paris. ?But when the music begins, I am lifted away from this place.? Ms. Ahmad plays violin and sings in the prison?s orchestra...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on June 23, 2008 (boomark / email).