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The lag had smashed through concrete in the attempted jailbreak.
But ammused guards looked on as they found the overweight inmate wedged in the wall after trying to squeeze his way out - aided by other prisoners pushing him.
A smaller accomplice who had gone first managed to escape.
The doomed bid for freedom happened late on Monday night at a prison in the Brazilian state of Goias.
Firefighters were called and used a sledgehammer to smash the remaining wall around the prisoner, who has not been named. The inmates had earlier made the hole using a metal pipe from a shower.
”He has a very large physique and is also very tall,” Lieutenant Tiago Costa of the local fire brigade said. “The other prisoners tried to push him but he stayed stuck in the wall. He started screaming in pain, and that was when the prison guards were alerted.”
The lag suffered cuts and bruises but was returned to his cell, where guards found a suitcase full of clothes which he had apparently packed in anticipation of his escape.
His accomplice, who made it through the wall, then scaled the five-metre-tall outer perimeter of the prison. A bag full of his clothes was found in the electrified wires on the top of the fence.
The escaped inmate is not believed to have been recaptured by police.
Police and prison officials, who apparently invited local media to witness the inmate’s predicament, were not willing to release his name or the offence of which he had been convicted.
Prison breaks are common in Brazilian jails, where conditions are often brutal. According to Amnesty International’s annual report in 2011: “Prisons [in Brazil] remained severely overcrowded and inmates were held in conditions amounting to cruel, degrading or inhuman treatment. The authorities had effectively lost control of many facilities, leading to a series of riots and homicides.”
The lag suffered cuts and bruises but was returned to his cell, where guards found a suitcase full of clothes which he had apparently packed in anticipation of his escape.
His accomplice, who made it through the wall, then scaled the five-metre-tall outer perimeter of the prison. A bag full of his clothes was found in the electrified wires on the top of the fence.
The escaped inmate is not believed to have been recaptured by police.
Police and prison officials, who apparently invited local media to witness the inmate’s predicament, were not willing to release his name or the offence of which he had been convicted.
Prison breaks are common in Brazilian jails, where conditions are often brutal. According to Amnesty International’s annual report in 2011: “Prisons [in Brazil] remained severely overcrowded and inmates were held in conditions amounting to cruel, degrading or inhuman treatment. The authorities had effectively lost control of many facilities, leading to a series of riots and homicides.”
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