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Thousands of inmates are crammed into the Dominican Republic's severely overcrowded prisons.
A majority languish there without ever having been charged with a crime.
Activists warn they face inhuman conditions and a lack of medical care.
Over 60% of the country’s roughly 26,000 inmates are being held under preventive detention.
Some 5,000 inmates are ill with conditions ranging from heart problems to cancer to HIV.
Some prisons have no medical staff, according to Valentín , whose office issues a yearly in-depth report on the conditions of all prisons.
Another prison was so overcrowded that the government held inmates outdoors in trucks with metal roofs that broiled under the sun.
Activists say inmates are not freed even when a judge has released them.
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