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 News from Around Banderas Bay | May 2007 
Prison Riot Leaves One Person Seriously Wounded in Vallarta
 PVNN
Puerto Vallarta - One person was seriously wounded and 14 suffered minor injuries in a riot at a prison in the Pacific coast city of Puerto Vallarta.
Luis Carlos Nájera, the public safety secretary of the state of Jalisco, where Puerto Vallarta is located, told reporters that some 500 police stormed the prison Friday night to quell the rebellion and freed four hostages.
The riot broke out earlier that day and initially involved 20 inmates, who took four guards hostage, but hundreds of other prisoners joined the uprising hours later to protest against the food they are given and supposed abuse by the guards. Rioters also set fire to the library. |
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