Thirteen prisoners escaped from a prison in Puerto Rico last Thursday, and two are still at large as the island struggles to maintain law and order in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
The escape happened after 900 inmates in Puerto Rico's easternmost prison in Rio Grande were evacuated to another facility before the storm tore through the island last Wednesday. The escapees are just one headache for the beleaguered prison system in Puerto Rico, which includes one federal and more than 30 local prisons holding thousands of inmates.
The US Bureau of Prisons began to evacuate Inmates at Puerto Rico's federal prison in Guaynabo—which holds 1,389 people—on Monday due to "difficulties in securing supplies and maintaining power." The agency would not say whether those inmates are relocating to mainland US or other areas in Puerto Rico.
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