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Quake Allows Mass Prison Breakout | NEWS.Com.Au
Society & Culture  (tags: peru, prison, jail, earthquake, prisoners, inmates, Tambo de Mora, escape )

Chrissy
- 842 days ago - news.com.au
AS Peru's powerful earthquake brought down their prison's walls and lights, 66 guards could only watch helplessly while nearly 700 inmates escaped into the night. The Chincha Prison, located in the town of Tambo de Mora, held many hardened criminals,
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Mary H. (38)
Saturday August 18, 2007, 11:02 am
As if they don't have enough to worry about!
 

BMutiny ThemIDefy (416)
Sunday August 19, 2007, 8:11 am
It was, as the guards said, the "Humanitarian thing to do" to allow the prisoners to escape from cells that were FLOODING and they thought a "tsunami was coming". Being put in jail for robbery, for example, should not mean a DEATH SENTENCE.
To label people as "criminals" and then make them into sub-humans with no rights, is to deprive ALL of us of rights.
 

Chrissy N. (118)
Sunday August 19, 2007, 6:01 pm
I agree, but I bet the ones that came back to serve out their sentence weren't the "including rapists, kidnappers and drug dealers,".
 

serge vrabec (253)
Sunday August 19, 2007, 7:27 pm
thumbs up BM.thx chrissy
 

Teresa del Castillo (1599)
Monday September 10, 2007, 3:52 pm
noted
 
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