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Quatre Camins Escapee Returns After Three Days as Catalonia Confronts Permit-Linked Breakouts

Justice officials defend supervised outings as reintegration tools with a failure rate below 0.7%.

Overview

  • The Quatre Camins inmate who fled on November 17 returned voluntarily to the prison on November 20, according to the Catalan Department of Justice.
  • He slipped away by claiming to feel unwell during a scheduled group visit and boarding a van waiting outside the facility, prompting a special Mossos d'Esquadra search soon after 9 a.m.
  • The returned prisoner is serving time for robbery with violence and intimidation, authorities said.
  • In a separate case, an inmate from Puig de les Basses escaped on November 14 during a hospital radiography outing in Figueres after pushing officers, and he remains at large.
  • Police also re-arrested on November 11 a Lledoners prisoner convicted of sexual assault who had failed to return from an August permit, locating him near Barcelona’s Barceloneta and sending him back to custody.