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Article: Bungles lead to prison escapes.
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- Australasian Business Intelligence
- Article date:
- January 22, 2002
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Jan 23, 2002 (The West Australian
ABIX via COMTEX) -- Six jail prisoners are still at large in Western Australia (WA) after a series of official blunders. A mix-up over the identity of a prisoner's twin resulted in police releasing the wrong man. At Wooroloo, a jail superintendent left the keys in a new Government-leased car and three inmates simply drove it out of the prison perimeter. The car was left near a workshop where inmates were rostered to clean the facilities. Other inmates said one of the escapees stole the car from the workshop, then drove to other parts of the prison to pick up the other escapees. A WA Justice Department official said the prisoners ...