Guatemala forces take infamous jail

[Robbien]

FRAIJANES, Guatemala, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Guatemalan security forces firing automatic weapons killed seven inmates on Monday when they took control of a notorious jail that had been effectively run by prisoners for 10 years, police said.

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Luis Alfonso Zepeda, a convicted murderer who headed a prisoners' committee that controlled the jail, was killed in a shootout. Zepeda earned around $25,000 a month from extortion and drug trafficking run from inside the prison, police said. His son Samuel lived illegally inside the prison to help run the crime empire, even though he was never sent there by a court.

Prisoners had set up laboratories to produce drugs and liquor inside Pavon. They also built their own homes in the prison grounds. One belonging to a Colombian drug trafficker had a jacuzzi.

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Pavon, southeast of the capital, was originally built for 800 inmates as a farm prison, where prisoners could grow their own food. But its population grew over time and inmates began to construct their own homes on the grounds. Leading prisoners even sold title deeds of homes to new inmates, police said.

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[peacetalksforall]

1. Don't know why, the the idea of PNACers in a prison doing the

same kind of thing entered my head. Hardened criminals. The difference with the PNACers is that there would be a lot of 'suicides' and jumps off the tallest builing, stomach first.