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Guatemalan Prison Riot
Loaded on Sept. 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
September, 1993, page 16
Some 1,000 prisoners of Pavocinto penitentiary near Guatemala City who took over the prison grounds on April 11, 1993, allowed authorities back in on April 13, 1993, after a 30 hour standoff. In exchange, the government promised that living conditions in the prison would be improved. Nine prisoners escaped, five …
Filed under:
Prison Rebellion,
Crime/Demographics,
Escapes,
Prisoners-International.
Location:
Guatemala.
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