Uganda: Moroto Prison Break - Only 20 Escapes Were Convicts

25 September 2020

Parliament — Only 20 out of the 224 prisoners who escaped from Moroto Prison on September 16 were serving their sentences while 204 of them were on remand awaiting trial for different criminal offenses.

Parliament learnt on Thursday that the prisoners, who took off with 14 guns, 15 magazines, and 480 rounds of ammunition, took advantage of the "low morale" by the prison warders following the outbreak of Cholera and Covid-19 in the prison.

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