<p>Guatemala's penitentiary system has requested authorities investigate more than 100 prison guards for charges including possible abuse of power, the government said in a statement on Tuesday, after a prison clean-out revealed hidden cash and even pets.</p><p>Of the guards, 102 worked at a prison known as "El Infiernito" (The Little Hell) around 50 miles (80 km) south of the capital, which until early this month housed a couple hundred suspected members of the Barrio 18 criminal gang.</p><p>On June 2, authorities in the Central American country transferred the 225 prisoners held in the complex in order to take back control of the building from its occupants.</p><p>The following day, authorities found nearly $24,000 in hidden cash stashes, 30 mobile phones and a variety of animals that were being kept as pets - including raccoons, hawks and crocodiles.</p><p>The penitentiary system called for a probe into possible abuse of power, breach of duty, disobedience, failure to disclose and usurping of power against the guards at the prison.</p><p>It also called for a separate investigation into six more guards over an interrupted transfer of a prisoner to a medical clinic.</p>
<p>Guatemala's penitentiary system has requested authorities investigate more than 100 prison guards for charges including possible abuse of power, the government said in a statement on Tuesday, after a prison clean-out revealed hidden cash and even pets.</p><p>Of the guards, 102 worked at a prison known as "El Infiernito" (The Little Hell) around 50 miles (80 km) south of the capital, which until early this month housed a couple hundred suspected members of the Barrio 18 criminal gang.</p><p>On June 2, authorities in the Central American country transferred the 225 prisoners held in the complex in order to take back control of the building from its occupants.</p><p>The following day, authorities found nearly $24,000 in hidden cash stashes, 30 mobile phones and a variety of animals that were being kept as pets - including raccoons, hawks and crocodiles.</p><p>The penitentiary system called for a probe into possible abuse of power, breach of duty, disobedience, failure to disclose and usurping of power against the guards at the prison.</p><p>It also called for a separate investigation into six more guards over an interrupted transfer of a prisoner to a medical clinic.</p>