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| Eighteen Inmates Escape from Russian Labor Colony for Minors |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 01/03/2003 |
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Eighteen inmates escaped from a labor colony for minors outside Russia's second-largest city, St. Petersburg, in hopes of spending the New Year holiday at home, prison officials said Monday. Thirteen of the boys who fled the Kolpino colony, located 25 kilometers southeast of St. Petersburg, last Sunday night were apprehended and five remained missing Monday, said Vladimir Kalinichenko, spokesman for the St. Petersburg prisons press service. Most of the runaways, ranging from 14 to 17 years of age, were at the earliest stage of imprisonment. Many are serving terms of four-six years, Kalinichenko said. 'They just said they wanted to go home for the New Year,' he said. The mass escape caused a 'big emergency' for the colony, Kalinichenko said, adding that officers are prohibited from opening fire at minors. The Kolpino colony was founded in 1972 to accommodate more than 200 boys from 14 to 18 years old. About half of the inmates are serving time for theft; only a small number have been convicted of murder. The colony's buildings and territory are in desperate need of renovation, and the inmates have little to occupy their time other than producing medicine cartons, sacks for flour, and coffins. |
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