Brazil
South America
Justice
Brazil
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Source — Courrier International
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Brazil
Brutal violence has exploded in the first months of 2017, leaving more than 140 inmates dead. This is the latest reminder of the chronic crisis in Brazil’s prison system, which has persisted for decades.
A policy of mass incarceration in place for more than 20 years has resulted in severe overcrowding…
Source — International Bar Association
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South America
Protest
Violence
Brazil
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Source — Le Parisien
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South America
Protest
Brazil
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Source — Le Monde
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Brazil
Shortly after midnight on New Year’s Eve, hundreds of inmates watched from a Manaus prison yard as the sky lit up with fireworks, paid for by the gangs that dominate the jail system.
The revelry continued well into the next day, and inmates celebrated with their wives and girlfriends. But then the guards…
Source — Associated Press
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Overcrowding
Brazil
The case could open up a wave of other claims, which some judges argue could financially cripple the state.
Source — Telesur
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Brazil
For nearly two years, guards didn’t dare enter the cell blocks at the Alcacuz prison in northeastern Brazil. And with good reason. Only about a dozen at a time are supposed to watch some 1,500 inmates, whose gangs are supplied through tunnels that let them bring in guns, knives, cellphones and just about…
Source — Associated Press
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South America
Drugs
Brazil
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Source — Le Monde Diplomatique
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South America
Violence
Brazil
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Source — L'Express
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South America
Protest
Violence
Brazil
Twenty-seven inmates were killed in a Brazilian prison riot that broke out on Saturday, adding to chaos in a penitentiary system in which some 140 inmates have died in gang warfare since the start of the year.
Members of a drug gang started the clash by invading a pavilion in the Alcaçuz prison that…
Source — France 24
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Violence
Brazil
The head of the Brazilian jail where 56 inmates were killed during a riot on New Year’s Day has been removed from office, state-run media agency Agencia Brasil reported.
Jose Carvalho da Silva, the interim director of the Anísio Jobim Penitentiary Complex, was removed Tuesday after corruption allegations…
Source — CNN
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South America
Violence
Brazil
Behind the prison bloodshed is an escalating feud between Brazil’s biggest drug gangs with about 100 killed in a week.
Source — Al Jazeera
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