There are 54 prisons in Bolivia which incarcerated 16,613 people as of March 2017[update].
[1] The prisons are managed by the Penitentiary Regime Directorate (Spanish: Dirección de Régimen Penintenciario).
The Defensor del Pueblo consider pre-trial detainees as people deprived of their right to liberty.
[2] An investigative survey by the Defensor del Pueblo of 20 rural prisons found that they lack the basic infrastructure necessary to function humanely.
[2] Due to the overcrowding of prisons in Bolivia and as part of a program that aims to spread literacy, inmates have now access to a small library where they can read books to reduce their jail time.