36 Prisoners Tunnel Out
Of Brazilian Jail
A group of 36 prisoners
tunneled their way out
of a prison in northeast
Brazil Saturday morning,
said Brazilian
officials.
The escape happened at a
jail in Campina Grande,
Brazil's northeast state
of Paraiba. The
prisoners dug a
six-meter-long tunnel
from the prison's
courtyard to the street
outside, which goes
right between the
prison's two sentry
boxes.
Till now, only one
escaped prisoner has
been recaptured.
Pedro Adalson, director
of the Penitentiary
Administration of
Paraiba state, called
the escape a "product of
negligence."
He has also ordered an
investigation on why the
tunnel could have been
constructed between two
sentry boxes without
being noticed by guards.
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