yeah, I spose so, 17 of them had the freedom to die by the hands of others, the Freedom to run nowhere quickly, locked in..
"Angry inmates broke into prison offices, armed themselves with machetes"
..I wonder why prison offices need Machetes?
"Corrupt prison guards were also found to have been behind the massive breakout of 78 dangerous inmates from the Escuintla maximum security prison, also outside the capital, in June 2001.
...Corrupt prison guards..
A United Nations panel investigating prison conditions throughout Latin America found that between 1992 and 1999, inmate population increased 155 per cent in Costa Rica, 113 per cent in Nicaragua, 90 per cent in Honduras and three per cent in Guatemala, far outstripping available prison space. "
The problem here seems to be third world policy's of Bad prison security and conditions ripe for abuse.
