Prison Riot In Mexico
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter) MEXICO CITY. A not by 200 prisoners at Allende gaol, near Veracruz, ended with two prisoners seriously injured in hospital and 28 more nursing minor injuries. Local press reports, which criticised the firmness with which the prison staff put down the riot, said it began when the prisoners were told they would not get their promised share from the sale of handicraft goods which they had made from palm fibre. The inmates first broke up furniture, then attacked the warders and a free-for-all fight with fists against truncheons followed before order was restored.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 30979, 8 February 1966, Page 22
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98Prison Riot In Mexico Press, Volume CV, Issue 30979, 8 February 1966, Page 22
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