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| Guatemala inmates used torture |
| By Reuters |
| Published: 09/29/2006 |
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FRAIJANES, GUATEMALA - Inmates used torture to run a violent Guatemalan prison for more than 10 years without interference from authorities and may have buried corpses on its sprawling grounds, officials said. About 3,000 police and soldiers firing automatic weapons stormed Pavon prison outside of the town of Fraijanes near the capital Guatemala City on Monday, retaking a jail controlled since 1996 by a committee of inmates. An "order committee" of hardened criminals including convicted murderers and rapists had ruled Pavon through extortion and punishment of prisoners who disobeyed them, Interior Minister Carlos Vielmann said on Thursday. What began in 1986 as a prisoners committee looking for better conditions gained more and more control over the next decade, then signed a pact with national prison authorities to run the place, said prison director Alejandro Giammattei. The authorities simply decided it was easier just to control the perimeter than to police what was going on inside the 1,600-inmate facility, he said. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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