Walls of Sri Lankan Facility Crushed by Waves; Inmates Return to Rebuild

Charleston Daily Mail › January 05, 2005

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MATARA, Sri Lanka - For the 413 inmates of the prison here, Dec. 26 dawned like any other day. Many were let out of their cells at 6 a.m. for exercise and spent the next several hours milling about the common area. Those housed in cellblocks A and H - convicted of murder, rape, making bombs, possessing illegal weapons and other serious crimes - remained in their cells, in keeping with procedures.

From the prisoners' perspective, something miraculous then happened. A wall of water slammed into the building, knocking down one of the 15-foot walls and setting all the inmates free.

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Walls of Sri Lankan Facility Crushed by Waves; Inmates Return to Rebuild

"It was as though nature made bail for everyone," said jailer Indika Lasath Kumara, 20, a 6-foot-2 former high school basketball star, who was just ...

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