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Brazil
A number of inmates at a jail in the northern Brazilian city of Belem have died during an attempted mass breakout.
Central America and the Caribbean
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Mexico
VERACRUZ, Mexico — Six police officers died on Sunday from smoke inhalation after prisoners started a fire while resisting an effort to transfer dangerous inmates out of a prison in Mexico’s Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, the authorities said.
The Franklin Masacre Survivors
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Venezuela
Carlos Hernandez photographed the men who survived Franklin Masacre’s reign over the General Penitentiary of Venezuela.
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Honduras
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Brazil
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Peru
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Brazil
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Brazil
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Philippines
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Venezuela
At least 37 people were killed during clashes between armed inmates and security forces at a small prison in southern Venezuela, the state’s governor said Wednesday.
Gov. Liborio Guarulla said the bloodshed came after fighting erupted between inmates and their jailers Tuesday night in the prison in…
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Philippines
AUTHORITIES in the Philippines said three inmates were killed on Sunday and another was wounded following a prison escape in Jolo, a southern Island notoriously known as a stronghold of Abu Sayyaf militants.
According to the South China Morning Post (via the AFP) the dead and wounded were among 14…
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Mexico
Mexican authorities say a search of an Acapulco prison where 28 inmates were killed last week during fighting among rival gang members turned up knives and shanks, but no guns or drugs.
