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| 5 prisoners beheaded in Guatemala prison fight |
| 2008-11-23 |
| A prison fight in Guatemala has left seven inmates dead, including five who were decapitated. National prisons systems spokesman Rudy Esquivel says authorities found the five heads after the fight in the Pavoncito prison in Guatemala City. He says two other inmates died in a hospital of gunshot wounds. Reporters saw a group of prisoners standing behind four heads lined up on piles of rocks in a yard. The fifth head was on a wooden stake. At one point, a prisoner masking his face with a red T-shirt lifted up one of the heads in triumph. Esquivel says the Saturday morning fight erupted because inmates were angry over the transfer of a group of alleged gang members from another prison. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 He says two other inmates died in a hospital of gunshot wounds. Funny, IIUC, in many south american jail systems, prison gangs actually sometimes battle each others with long arms and grenades, and there are mass fights involving dozens of prisoners armed not with shanks & shivs, but with machetes... apparently, in many cases, prisons are "opne", in that sense that prisoners can come and go, and many have their families housed within the prison. Pretty far removed from a western idea of a prison. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-11-23 08:02 |
| #2 Somehow I get the feeling that they were in jail for a good reason. I think a few more "transfers" are in order. |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-11-23 05:55 |
| #1 Guatemala, Guantanamo. A little clerical error could quite nicely take care of our jihadi prisoner problem. Read 'em their Carmen Miranda rights, Mr. Esquivel. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-11-23 00:52 |