{"id":55866,"date":"2018-01-02T06:27:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T06:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=55866"},"modified":"2018-01-02T06:27:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T06:27:01","slug":"nine-dead-in-latest-outbreak-of-brazilian-prison-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/nine-dead-in-latest-outbreak-of-brazilian-prison-violence.html","title":{"rendered":"Nine dead in latest outbreak of Brazilian prison violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Nine dead in latest outbreak of Brazilian prison violence<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Nine inmates were killed, 14 were injured, and dozens escaped in a prison riot on Monday, national news media reported, in the latest example of Brazil\u2019s continuing difficulties maintaining control over its notoriously violent penal system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">According to newspaper O Estado de S\u00e3o Paulo, 106 prisoners escaped the prison in the city of Goi\u00e2nia, near the capital of Brasilia. Authorities recaptured 27 of the escapees, but the rest remained at large.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">One of the nine killed in the mayhem was decapitated, news media reported, sparking memories of a prison riot that occurred one year ago today in the Amazon in which 56 people died, several of whom were decapitated and thrown over prison walls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">That riot, which was rooted in a long-standing gang rivalry, came at the beginning of a January marred by widespread prison violence, with 130 prisoners dying in the first 20 days of 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Brazil\u2019s prisons, which suffer endemic violence, are often severely overcrowded. Rights group call prison conditions medieval, with food scarce and cells often so packed inmates have no space to lie down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">In comments on Monday to newspaper Folha de S\u00e3o Paulo, the head of Brazil\u2019s prison guard union, Jorimar Bastos, criticized the amount of resources allocated for oversight at the Goi\u00e2nia prison, saying only five guards were assigned to watch over 900 prisoners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-brazil-prison-riot\/nine-dead-in-latest-outbreak-of-brazilian-prison-violence-idUSKBN1EQ1AD<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/world-news\/nine-dead-in-latest-outbreak-of-brazilian-prison-violence.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine dead in latest outbreak of Brazilian prison violence Nine inmates were killed, 14 were injured, and dozens escaped in a prison riot on Monday, national news media reported, in the latest example of Brazil\u2019s continuing difficulties maintaining control over its notoriously violent penal system. 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