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Australian inmates escape prison, get drunk, return

The men have since been transferred to the prison’s maximum security prison

By Xavier La Canna
ABC.net

DARWIN, Australia — The ABC understands authorities were checking whether low-security prisoners have repeatedly escaped from a work release centre at Berrimah jail for a few hours after a 7pm headcount.

“It would appear that a couple of prisoners have jumped the fence but returned,” a spokesman for NT Department of Correctional Services said.

Authorities were believed to suspect the group, and possibly other prisoners, were from time to time jumping a cyclone fence, getting picked up from a main road by partners and given alcohol and marijuana, before breaking back into prison a few hours later.

Full Story: Berrimah inmates break out of prison, then return after getting drunk