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Man gets life for brazen jail break

AN escaped prisoner who used a crane to smash through a prison wall to flee was given a life sentence for endangering social order by a court in Hebei Province yesterday, Xinhuanet.com reported today. Xie Wanli... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Thu, Jul 24 2008

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