The Keys to the Escape
A prison guard made three duplicate keys for Gunawan Santosa, allowing him to escape. The guard is now out of a job. Yielding to temptation caused Wahyudin, 31, to lose his job. It also put him behind bars. Thanks to the help offered by Wahyudin in May 2006, Gunawan Santosa was able to find a way out of Cipinang Prison, a special facility for narcotics cases. Wahyudin gave Santosa a number of duplicate keys, which this death-row inmate then used to escape from a maximum-security facility. Wahyudin is now behind bars in a prison at Tangerang, where he inhabits a 3 x 4-meter cell. “He is serving his prison sentence,” said Gusti Tamardjaya, head of the Correctional Facilities Division of the Jakarta Office of the Justice & Human Rights Department, on Monday last week, speaking to Tempo. According to the police, Wahyudin gave three duplicate keys to Santosa, which he used to open a number of doors and escape from his cell in Block C. Santosa headed for the gate of the main building, th...