PNG embarrassed as 54 hardcore prisoners escape

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Updated September 28, 2009 17:37:04

In Papua New Guinea a senior Corrective Services Officer has accused his officers of taking bolt cutters into prisons, allowing prisoners to cut the prison fence and escape. It comes after more than fifty prisoners escaped from the Bomana Prison outside the capital Port Moresby on Sunday.

Presenter: Firmin Nanol
Speaker: Henry Wavik, PNG's Deputy Correctional Services Commissioner for Operations

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