Brazil
South America
Drugs
Brazil
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Source — Le Monde Diplomatique
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Violence
Brazil
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Source — L'Express
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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 tha…
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 alleg…
Source — CNN
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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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South America
Overcrowding
Violence
Brazil
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Source — Libération
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Brazil
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Source — Sept
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Brazil
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Source — L'Express
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Violence
Brazil
bout 60 inmates were killed in a prison riot sparked by a fight between rival drug gangs in the Brazilian city of Manaus, local authorities said.
The uprising began Sunday afternoon at the Anísio Jobim prison complex and lasted more than 17 hours. Two prison-based gangs have been battling over cont…
Source — Wall Street Journal
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South America
Protest
Violence
Brazil
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Source — L'express
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Violence
Brazil
A third prison riot since Sunday night in Brazil has led to a mass escape of inmates.
Fifty-five prisoners in Sao Paulo’s Franco da Rocha psychiatric ward escaped after starting a fire which burned down a wing of the prison. Despite a huge manhunt in the city’s suburb involving helicopters police w…
Source — Euronews
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Violence
Brazil
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Source — Courrier International & AFP Sao Paulo
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South America
Violence
Brazil
At least 25 inmates have been killed in clashes between two rival factions in an overcrowded prison in northern Brazil, local media report.
Seven of the dead were beheaded and six others burned to death, a police official reportedly said.
The incident in Boa Vista, the capital of Roraima state, hap…
Source — BBC
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