Why Inmates Set Free After The Indonesia Quake Are Returning To Their Prison
Prisoners at the Donggala District Prison rioted as the earthquake and tsunami hit last month. The warden opened the doors — but now, after checking on their families, many inmates have come back.
by Julie McCarthy
Oct 10, 2018
3 minutes
It's not every day you see freed prisoners walk back into the arms of their jailers. But about 80 inmates from Indonesia's Donggala District Prison are doing just that.
They assembled this past week on the patchy grass of the prison grounds and counted off for prison head Safiuddin.
The diminutive warden's powers of persuasion worked for this group, but not for all of the 360 prisoners who had been serving time in
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