Three weeks before he was shot dead, Miguel Calderon, an inmate in the lawless Los Llanos jail on Venezuela’s central plains, sent a voice message to his father. “We live among the shit and the trash,” the 26-year-old former soldier, convicted of car theft, said in the message reviewed by Reuters. Like many of the prisoners in Venezuela’s overcrowded and violent penitentiaries, Los Llanos’s 4,000 inmates normally subsist on food relatives bring them. But authorities banned visits due to a coronavirus quarantine imposed in March. The guards, desperate themselves amid national shortages, began stealing the little food getting behind bars, inmates said, forcing some prisoners to turn to eating stray animals. […]