American Who Escaped Crowded Bali Prison Is Recaptured<br />18, 2017<br />JAKARTA, Indonesia — Nearly a week after escaping from a notoriously overcrowded prison in<br />Bali, an American citizen arrested in August on drug charges is back in police custody.<br />About half of the estimated 228,000 inmates in Indonesia’s prisons are being held on drug charges, officials say.<br />The Indonesian police say they seized Mr. Beasley on Saturday in front of a budget hotel in the tourist town of Senggigi.<br />Mr. Beasley paid a local fisherman for the use of a boat to cross the channel separating the two islands, they said.<br />Mr. Beasley was arrested in August on suspicion of possessing more than five grams of hashish.<br />On the night of the break in June, only five guards were reportedly on duty.
