Reply #12: Mexico prison staff suspected in mass escape

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An intensive manhunt along Mexico's northern border has failed to turn up any of the more than 140 prisoners who escaped from a federal prison.

The inmates apparently walked out unchallenged Friday through the main gate of the prison in the northeastern city of Nuevo Laredo.

Tamaulipas state security chief Antonio Garza told local radio that the prison's director was reported as missing, along with the inmates.

Prison staff are under suspicion of being involved in the escape, the latest in a series of such incidents in Tamaulipas this year.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/12/18/mexico-prison-break.html