Argentina prison hostage crisis ends; inmates moved to high-security regime

A penitentiary officer was taken hostage in a Mendoza prison; his mother and aunt died in a car crash en route to the facility after seeing the incident on video. The standoff was resolved, and Governor Alfredo Cornejo ordered the inmates placed under a 'very high profile' regime. The incident highlights prison security vulnerabilities and the human cost of such crises.

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