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RSS FeedsMass slaughter in Brazil prison exposes gang war over drugs
(World News Brazil)

 
 

22 february 2017 16:08:51

 
Mass slaughter in Brazil prison exposes gang war over drugs
(World News Brazil)
 


MANAUS, Brazil (AP) -- 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 noticed something strange: The prisoners were asking their guests to go. "That is all for today, leave now," guards heard prisoners say. The last family member left at 4:09 p.m. on New Year's Day. What happened next would go beyond any worst-case scenario imagined by guards or authorities, unleashing a brutality that would lay bare a failed prison...


 
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Feb, 22 2017 (Magazine Luiza SA)
(World News Brazil)
Brazil prison slaughter exposes gang war, banality of evil
(World News Brazil)
 
 
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