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| 'Prison break' guards on trial in Mexico |
| 2010-12-30 |
| [Iran Press TV] Some 41 guards have been charged with helping 153 prisoners escape from a prison in the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo in Tamaulipas state. The Attorney General's Office (PGR) announced on Tuesday that all the 41 guards, among them seven women, are brought to trial for helping the escape of 153 inmates from the Executions of Sanctions Center on December 17. If convicted, the guards will face up to 20 years in prison. Officials initially said 141 prisoners had beat feet from prison but later brought the number up to 153. According to the information gathered through a state investigation, the inmates have apparently beat feet from an entrance for staff vehicles in collusion with prison guards. No need for a helicopter landing in the prison yard? None of the beat feet prisoners have been captured yet. The director of the prison, Efrain Hernandez Llamas, has disappeared after the jailbreak, said Antonio Garza Garcia, public safety secretary for Tamaulipas state. The state's top prison official, Horacio Sepulveda, was fired a few days after prison break. In a similar incident in September, 85 inmates beat feet from a prison in the border city of Reynosa in Tamaulipas state of Mexico. Also in March, 40 inmates beat feet from another prison in the border city of Matamoros in the same state. |
| Posted by:Fred |