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Inmates Protest Poor Prison Conditions in Turkey

Written: 2012-06-19 14:37:41Updated: 2012-06-19 17:28:40

Inmates Protest Poor Prison Conditions in Turkey

Another fire broke out in a prison in southeast Turkey, leaving at least 47 inmates and prison guards wounded.

Reuters reports that there were no deaths in this fire.

Turkish media say that inmates of the prison in the mostly Kurdish city of Sanliurfa apparently set another fire in protest against the deaths of 13 people in a separate blaze at the prison last weekend.

Last Saturday, inmates of the prison had set beds and blankets alight to revolt against poor prison conditions.

The Sanliurfa prison was built to hold 300 inmates, but roughly one-thousand inmates are currently held there.

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