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Guards detained over prisoner escape

China Daily, September 26, 2011

• "It may be caused by dissatisfaction with the widening wealth disparity."

  Young people need to be taught to establish a right sense of judgment, he said.

  Police said Wang's capture was made all the more difficult in that he had served in the army's special force and knew how to cover his tracks.

  Police in Henan and Hebei provinces traced him over 10 km from his home in Wangzhai village to Lumiao village, where relatives of Wang live, the newspaper Beijing News reported.

  Police then surrounded a three-story building from 12 pm on Friday, and climbed over the wall and caught him hiding in a room at about 1:30 am on Saturday.

  Among the questions being asked about Wang's escape is why he went home, a place that presumably would be one of the first places where authorities would look for him.

  Wang began a 10-year sentence for theft in January in a jail that holds 3,700 prisoners. In the prison he made birdcages, a released inmate was quoted as saying.

  Earlier, police had said Wang made rope out of plastic bags.

  Beijing News quoted unnamed sources as saying he had made his escape by climbing over a prison wall.

  In an apparent move to prevent more escapes, new barbed wire has been put up on the prison's walls.

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