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A 19-year-old British teenager will be tried in Bolivia on charges of smuggling 49 grams of cocaine, worth about 80 U.S. dollars. If she is found guilty, she could be sentenced to one year in prison per gram. The teen had told colleagues that she was taking time off work at a hair salon to visit her father in Spain; however, she was arrested in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. A spokesman for Prisons Abroad, Matthew Pinches, commented on the danger faced by the young woman if she is detained in a South American prison: "People inside these prisons are very vulnerable. They are lawless and a dangerous place to be because guards have very little to do with the inside. They stay on the exterior to stop prisoners absconding."

(Source: www.dailystar.co.uk)

Labels: drug smuggling, prison

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