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I heard about this on CNN today, I couldn’t believe the report they had, so I searched about it online.

I really thought this was a joke. Turns out that a group of prisoners took over a prison 10 years ago in Guatemala. They have been controlling it for all that time, doing what ever they want inside, well yesterday that came to an end, when 3000 soldiers stormed into the prison and took control of it (7 prisoners were killed). How can something like this happen, and for TEN YEARS!

Here are a few funny exerts from the article:

One prisoner lived in a two-storey house complete with jacuzzi and guard dog. Others built shops and churches, while some made thousands of dollars renting out space for restaurants. For one inmate, life was so good that he smuggled his son inside the prison to live, even though he had not been convicted of any crime.

“We ran into strong resistance. They had grenades, assault rifles, homemade weapons and Molotov cocktails,” Guatemala’s national director of prisons, Alejandro Giammatei, told reporters. The inmates had also been armed with automatic weapons.

The day before Monday’s raid, the country’s main newspaper, Prensa Libre, published an article about the relaxed lifestyle enjoyed by the prisoners. Reporters from the newspaper said they had been able to enter the jail and buy marijuana and cocaine.

The conditions inside Pavon appear to have been remarkable. The Interior Secretary, Carlos Vielmann, told the Associated Press that the facility had become a den of drugs and crime with the co-operation of the guards, who allowed inmates to control what transpired inside. Such was the organisation in the jail that prisoners even operated a laboratory to produced cocaine.

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