Indonesia to have crocodiles to stand guard over death row drug convicts

In what could be termed to be a first, Indonesia could introduce crocodiles to stand guard over death row drug convicts - that is what the head of Indonesia's anti-drugs agency has proposed. A prison island would be built to house death-row drug convicts and it would be guarded by crocodiles.
This has been reported in bbc.com dated 9 November 2015.

In the opinion of Budi Waseso, crocodiles often made better guards than humans - because they could not be bribed. He has embarked on a mission of visiting different parts of the Indonesian archipelago in order to locate the fiercest reptiles and relocate as many crocodiles as possible there.
Incidentally, Indonesia has some of the toughest drug laws in the world and has put an end to a four-year moratorium on executions in 2013.
His logic is simple - you can not bribe crocodiles, neither can you convince them to let the inmates escape.
Of course, the plan is still in the early stages, and neither the location nor the potential opening date of the jail have yet been decided.

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Families often live together in Latin American prisons and, in this case, something went horribly wrong when four inmates were killed by gunfire and another 11 wounded, mostly with knives, after a party exploded into gang violence dailymail.co.uk.
The fight started after partying that began on Sunday in the El Abra prison, which is just outside the city of Cochabamba.
The injured included two women, one of them was pregnant – but, the foetus did not survive because a bullet had gone through her womb.
All the four dead were Bolivians and, one of them was a prison gang boss named Ariel Tancara, whose throat was reportedly slit. It seems rivalry between Bolivian and foreign prison gangs was to blame.
As per reports of Bolivian media, the dead were Colombians who had been jailed for drug trafficking. The Sunday night party had alcohol and live music and family members of the inmates have condemned prison officials for allowing alcohol into the premises and have accused them of corruption.
Authorities periodically confiscate weapons and drugs in the overcrowded prisons of Bolivia but, the inmates bribe prison guards to smuggle them in.
In August 2013, a battle among rival gangs in the Palmasola prison in the eastern city of Santa Cruz in which 35 people died - many of them were burned to death by homemade flamethrowers.
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