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| 52 inmates on run after Brazil jailbreak |
| By telanganatoday.news |
| Published: 01/25/2017 |
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Sao Paulo: Brazilian police were hunting for 52 inmates who broke out of a jail on Tuesday in the latest unrest to hit the country’s overcrowded prisons. Inmates set fire to one of the cellblocks before escaping from the Penitentiary Progression Center, a semi-open prison in the town of Bauru, northwest of Sao Paulo, the national prisons authority said. The revolt broke out in protest after a prison guard confiscated a mobile phone from an inmate, it said. “The prisoners started a commotion and some took advantage of it to flee,” a source in the prisons authority told AFP. Read More. |
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