Last night photos of one the naked wardens, believed to have been leaked by
amused police officers who found him, had been shared thousands of times on
social network sites.
The three women - one of them reportedly the girlfriend of one of the
prisoners who escaped - arrived at the prison at three o'clock on Thursday
morning and asked to be let inside to "chat and drink", police
said.
The prison guards reportedly obliged and were soon persuaded to leave their
posts, accompanying the girls to staff sleeping quarters.
After drugging the wardens the women handcuffed them, took their keys and
unlocked all the prison's cells, according to chief Angelina de Andrades
Ferreira.
She told a news conference: "The plan was to seduce them. They served
them cheap whisky with some substance to knock them out, then unlocked the
central gate which accesses the internal cells.
"Whoever wanted to escape left by the front door.
"From the moment they drank the whisky the agents don't remember a thing.
One was found dizzy, trying to wake up. Another slept for the whole
afternoon and couldn't even be questioned."
The inmates took three 12 caliber rifles shotguns, two 38 caliber revolvers
and munition, she said.
Ms Ferreira said the escape was planned by the boyfriend of one of the women,
Bruno Amorim, 18, was was serving time for attempted murder, robbery and
firearms possession.
She said: "Everything indicated that he planned and executed everything,
with the help of his girlfriend."
She said the three prison officers had been arrested and will be charged with "facilitating
a jailbreak" and "culpable embezzlement" because of the theft
of firearms.
On Friday eight of the 28 prisoners had been recaptured as police launched a
massive operation to track down the fugitives.
One inmate was found wandering around the centre of Nova Mutum in a drunken
state, holding one of the stolen rifles. Another was caught after stealing a
pick-up truck from a farm and crashing it, police said.
