Group clashes in prisons in Brazil kill at least 18 inmates

At least 18 inmates died in group clashes in two separate penitentiaries in Brazil's Amazon region. In addition, more than three dozen escaped after a third prison riot caused a large fire in a complex outside Sao Paulo. The authorities were examining a possibility of there being some connection between the first two uprisings in the jungle states of Rondonia and Roraima.
Ten prisoners died in the mutiny at the Monte Cristo prison in the city of Boa Vista in Roraima and eight others were killed in a similar riot about 800 miles away in the penitentiary in Rondonia.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 18 October 2016.

The trouble began during visiting hours when some inmates armed with knives and wooden sticks broke padlocks and attacked those in another wing, who are believed to have been members of a rival gang. The rioters also took 100 women visitors hostage.
The riots erupted on a day the prisoners had about 50 people who were visiting the penitentiary in Roraima. This is situated on the border with Venezuela and Guyana. The rioters had taken hostages but they were later released unharmed.
Incidentally, Brazil has the fourth largest prison population in the world. It has 600,000 inmates packed into a number of increasingly ramshackle jails and, at Monte Cristo, there are 1,400 inmates held in a prison which was supposed to have a capacity of half that figure.


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