A prisoner has escaped from Hu'atolitoli Prison on Tongatapu, the Commissioner of Prisons Semisi Tapueluelu confirmed to Matangi Tonga today, although no further details were released. Meanwhile, early this afternoon all Prison Officers who are not on Christmas Duty were recalled and told to report to Hu'atolitoli Prison immediately.
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Saturday 20 March 2021
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
The current overcrowding of the Hu’atolitoli Prison and its psychiatric facility is a major concern for Tonga’s Prison Commissioner, Semisi Tapueluelu, the psychiatrist Mapa Puloka, and the courts. More and more convicted criminals are being given suspended sentences because there is simply not anywhere to incarcerate them. By Pesi Fonua
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Monday 20 April 2020
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A 37-year-old male prisoner was arrested with methamphetamine at the Hu’atolitoli Prison compound.
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Friday 15 June 2018
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Heamani Lopeti was found guilty of armed robbery and serious bodily harm when he assaulted a warden’s son with a machete, during an armed robbery at a home in Hu’atolitoli Prison in 2014.
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Monday 29 January 2018
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Police confiscated a branch of cannabis with leaves, found with a Prisoner at Hu’atolitoli Prison on January 17.
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Monday 12 September 2016
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A 24-year-old man died on impact when the truck he was driving crashed into a tree in front of the Hu’atolitoli Prison compound early Saturday morning, 10 September.
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Monday 17 November 2014
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Two men were arrested after a prison warden's son was attacked with a machete during a robbery inside a warden's home at the Hu‘atolitoli Prison compound in Vaini on Sunday November 9.
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Wednesday 22 February 2012
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
A quarrel between two prisoners over the size of the portions of a chicken soup lunch at Hu'atolitoli Prison resulted in one male prisoner attacking another with a machete on Sunday afternoon, February 19, according to the Commissioner of Prisons Sione Falemanu.
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Friday 18 June 2004
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Nuku'alofa, Tonga
Two prisoners who suffered abuse in Tonga's Hu'atolitoli Prison had escaped under duress a Judge has declared, after accepting unchallenged evidence that the two had been tortured by the Prison authorities.
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