Stories of Paraná - Two of prison

Stories of Paraná - Two of prison

Two of prison
Rodrigo Pereira Gomes

The Central State Penitentiary in Piraquara, equivalent to a small, bustling city It has 14 galleries with 1600 "guests" requirements, plus a "motel" built for intimate gatherings and allowed an area of ​​maximum safety.
Who wants to know her well will have to go through exactly seven miles of corridors.
Or ...
Sunny Sunday, 10 am. A group of inmates interrupts the lively game of football to watch the roar of an engine that spreads in the sky.
Distant, even seconds ago, he's getting closer.
Suddenly, the small ultralight aircraft appears on the line the high walls of the prison, so low that almost rubs the sentry security.

Every airline pilot worth his salt knows and respects the law that prevents overflights at low altitude in prisons and other areas or buildings deemed security. The intrepid ace ultralight seems to ignore this rule, as well as the possible punishment of those who transgress: it can be shot in full flight. And by ignoring both one and the other, our pilot begins to circle Levelling
about the prison.
Armed with a carabiner high reach and impact, military police officer who was awake in the seventh gatehouse still questioned the guardhouse fellow neighbor: - "So, we keep the law?" Do not wait for an answer.
Took aim at the engine of small aircraft and sent buckshot.
The ultralight and its pilot not only shattered completely, on a hill near the Guards Company, because the small plane planer with relative ease, decreasing the impact of the fall.
The guards picked up the pilot with a few broken bones and an amazing explanation.
It was young prosecutor, recently approved in tender and appointed to meet the State's Central Prison.
On that sunny Sunday, said he was just trying to learn quickly, easy and enjoyable your new workplace.
If entering a prison in the sky can not, much less is allowed to leave her underneath.
But every inmate has the intrinsic right to try to escape - and one of the most common ways to escape from a prison is through tunnels.
In 1979, a group of inmates Piraquara became notable for greatest work "engineering runaway" already built there.
It was a tunnel with 78 feet long, five meters excavated soil below.
Began in the third gallery, crossing a football field, and a sunny patio, advancing toward the outer wall.
Had internal bracing, electric light, ventilation and reel for the removal of excavated earth.
To deceive the guards, the mouth of the tunnel was covered with a siding imitating a wall pasted cake with beans.
Trail should give about 150 prisoners three galleries.
Lacked digging only two more yards to reach the outer wall, when the disaster occurred. The "engineer" the work computations dozed in and raised the tunnel. The soil layer could not stand the weight of a truck that ran over, sinking and revealing the underpass.
The frustration must have been great.
But who ensures that there is a new tunnel being dug right now?

Rodrigo Gomes Pereira, retired government employee.
Wrote based on facts narrated personally by Captain PM Marco Aurélio de Moraes Sarmento,
died early 12/04/93


Source: Stories of Paraná, Brasil.