Video: Florida prison inmates break into car to rescue baby

Prison work gang put lock-picking skills to good use to free the trapped child

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A work crew of prison inmates in Florida has been praised for helping to rescue a baby locked in a car.

The one-year-old girl was trapped in the SUV after her parents accidentally closed the door with the keys still inside in a car park in New Port Richey, around 40 miles north-west of Tampa, on Thursday.

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