Prison guards on strike, inmates set free

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Convicted sex offenders and violent criminals were let loose from a Norway prison this week when guards went on strike, forcing authorities to free 52 inmates, officials said.

'Some of these are prisoners convicted for violence, drugs, economic crime and sex crimes,' Mr Harald Aasaune, the manager of the Bjoergvin prison outside Bergen, said on Friday.

'Bjoergvin is an open prison, but still, many of them are sitting in relatively long sentences,' he added. 'I don't think this has ever happened before.'

Four of Bjoergvin's prisoners were released on probation while 48 were granted a five-day furlough as guards joined other public workers on strike.