Images from Inside Roumieh Prison

Police work to get inside Roumieh prison after inmates took several guards hostage overnight Tuesday. They have since been released. (Photo released by Lebanese Internal Security Forces, via NOWLebanon Blog)

Images from Roumieh Prison Riot

Images via Daylife. Top: Smoke rises from Roumieh prison, east of Beirut, April 5, 2011. Inmates at Lebanon's largest prison took three guards hostage on Tuesday to protest against overcrowded conditions and lengthy detentions without trial, security sources said (Reuters Pictures). Second: Smoke billows from the compound of the central Roumieh prison, where inmates have been rioting for several days, in Roumieh east of Beirut, Lebanon, on Tuesday April 5, 2011 ... (AP Photo). Third and Bottom: Some 70 family members of prisoners demonstrate outside Lebanon's largest jail in Rumieh where three guards are being detained as inmates demanding amnesty and better conditions have been rioting since two days (Getty Images).