Rioting Inmates Rape 20

Congolese Prison Break Fails, Prisoners Rape 20 Women Inmates

From the Democratic Republic of Congo:

Rioting inmates raped 20 female prisoners during a failed prison break in Democratic Republic of Congo's central prison in Goma, capital of the eastern border province of North Kivu.
Two people were killed and 12 others were injured when prisoners detonated two grenades inside the prison during an overnight escape attempt that began late Sunday.

Congolese police and military surrounded the prison, which holds a number of rebel and militia fighters, soon after the riots began. No prisoners escaped.

The United Nations blames a growing wave of attempted jail breaks and mutinies on a lack of food and access to healthcare in Congo's prison system.


Inmates Snitch on Escape Plan

Adapted from the Daily World, Indiana:

Criminal charges have been filed against two inmates in connection with an ongoing escape attempt that was discovered last month. Brian Ashcraft, 36, and Scott Sozzi, 21, have been charged in Greene Superior Court with two counts of criminal mischief – Class A and B misdemeanors.

The alleged escape plot was discovered on May 26 when the jail commander was told by an inmate that he heard water running behind the C-Block wall. Jail commander Darren McDonald found a broken waterline going to the B-Block downstairs shower leaking badly with part of a bed sheet wrapped around the leak, the shower cover plate tied in place with a strip of cloth, part of a shower panel broke off, and the remaining cover plate badly damaged.

The shower plate mounting bolts were torn loose, and the cloth strip holding the cover plate in place. A piece of angle iron approximately 24 inches long was found laying on the mechanical room floor. This is not a tool kept in that room. The ends of this angle iron were found to be bent, leading to the belief that the iron was used to break the shower plate loose in B-Block.

Investigators say the inmates exerted some physical labor to remove the shower cover plate. The removal of the plate cover would allow access to a hole approximately 9 5/8 inches by 16 1/4 inches through the concrete block wall and into the mechanical room.

Once inside the mechanical room, inmates Ashcraft and Sozzi could have opened the door and walked out of the jail.




Jailed Man Produces a Handgun, Attempts Escape

Adapted from Florida media:

Sometime before 7:20 p.m. Monday, Osceola jail inmate Angel Santiago pulled out a gun from his clothing and threatened to kill a corrections officer escorting him back to his cell, according to the sheriff's spokeswoman Twis Lizasuain.

Santiago, 28, forced the officer into a medical bay and ordered the man to exchange uniforms with Santiago so his hostage looked like an inmate and Santiago looked like a guard, according to a report of the incident.

Confronted by other officers who came to their colleague's rescue, Santiago fought back until he was disarmed. The freed officer said Santiago had threatened to "blow my head off," the report stated.

How Santiago obtained a loaded handgun remained unanswered Tuesday as sheriff's officials investigated the attempted jailbreak.

Santiago is currently serving two life sentences over shooting a robbery victim in the stomach that he had threatened to kill. On Tuesday, he was in the Osceola County Jail awaiting trial and a possible third life sentence for armed robbery, records show.


That's all for now. See you when there is another escape.