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- GRAPEVINE, Page 15There's No Place Like Jail
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- By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by Sidney Urquhart
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- When Colombian police began cracking down on the narcotics
- trade, traffickers coined a defiant slogan: "Better a tomb in
- Colombia than a cell in the United States." Now that drug
- kingpins can avoid extradition under a new plea-bargaining
- agreement, a cell in Colombia has become a very attractive
- compromise. Since Medellin drug-cartel leaders Jorge, Fabio and
- Juan David Ochoa surrendered to Colombian authorities in recent
- months, they have been housed in a custom-tailored facility.
- Angry U.S. drug-enforcement officials complain that the Ochoa
- brothers are enjoying posh accommodations equipped with fancy
- furniture, stereos and cable television.
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