Vietnam Police Hunts for Hundreds of Escaping Inmates
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Kamis, 1 Januari 1970 07:00 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Vietnamese authorities were searching for 230 drug addicts on Monday, October 24, 2016, folllwing a mass escape from a rehabilitation center in southern Vietnam, according to AP news agency report.
Ho Van Loc, deputy director of labor department in Dong Nai province, said that the breakout, which occurred on Sunday night, October 23, 2016, was started by two inmates and eventually causing 562 inmates, including 58 women, to escape.
Overpowered security guards were forced to open the main gate of the compound and let the inmates out, according to Loc.
Currently, Vietnam Police have recaptured 332 inmates and were searching for the others, Loc added.
Officials said that rehabilitation programs in Vietnam, which combine education, communist ideology and physical labor for one to two years, have a high failure rate, with more than 90 percent of the addicts relapsing within five years.
AP
