The report notes that in Venezuela the problem of prison violence is closely linked to drugs, and so a preventive inspection and monitoring programme has been implemented, which is aimed at detecting drugs as they enter prisons.
Citation: Sir Nigel Rodley ,'Follow-up to the recommendations made by the Special Rapporteur on Torture - Visits to Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela' (2000) E/CN.4/2000/9/Add.1