Guatemala forces end 10-year prisoner rule at jail.
FRAIJANES, Guatemala (Reuters) - Guatemalan security forces took over a jail run for over 10 years by inmates who built their own town on prison grounds complete with restaurants, churches and hard-drug laboratories.
Pavon was one of the worst prisons in Guatemala's penitentiary system, where common criminals, rival "mara" street gangs and drug traffickers often battle for control. Police had not been into Pavon, on the edge of the town of Fraijanes, since 1996.
Talk about prison reform.
