Brazil's overcrowded prisons experience massacres 'almost daily' ABC News


Brasil declara nulo el juicio por la masacre de Carandiru en un alarmante golpe para la justicia

99+ Photos Crime Drama The stories of crime, revenge, love, and friendship experienced by doctor Drauzio Varella over the more than 12 years he worked at the Carandiru Penitentiary, the largest prison in Latin America. Director Hector Babenco Writers Hector Babenco Fernando Bonassi Victor Navas Stars Enrique Diaz Wagner Moura Caio Blat


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Known locally as 'Casa de Detenção' - House of Detention - Carandiru Prison in Brazil's capital São Paulo was designed and built by Samuel das Neves in 1920 and at the time, it was a state-of-the-art correctional facility that more than met the demands of Brazil's 1890 Criminal Code. History of Carandiru Prison Museum


Massacre do Carandiru completa 25 anos e segue impune pela Justiça

The 1992 military operation in São Paulo's Carandiru prison left more than 100 prisoners dead. The authorities claimed the police were trying to break up a fight between prisoners who had seized control of the jail's Block 9.


Brazil's overcrowded prisons experience massacres 'almost daily' ABC News

The Carandiru complex in Sao Paulo has been turned into a park, its walls adorned with graffiti A court in Brazil has sentenced 15 policemen to lengthy jail sentences for their role in putting.


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Carandiru Penitentiary is today remembered as one of the worst prisons in the history of modern world, and the place of one of the largest human rights violations in the history of Brazil.


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Brazil has more than 500,000 inmates, the fourth largest prison population in the world. Carandiru had 10,000 prisoners in 1992. It saw several riots before the prison was finally closed and the.


Carandiru de prisão modelo a palco de um dos maiores massacres da história Revista Cenarium

Military police stormed Sao Paulo's Carandiru prison in 1992 to quell a riot sparked by a fight between two rival gangs that started with a quarrel during a soccer game. Prosecutors said.


Carandiru Penitentiary Massacre

A court trial this week over police responsibility for a Brazilian prison massacre two decades ago must signal the beginning of the end for a long legacy of impunity, Amnesty International said today. According to the human rights organization, the failure of Brazilian authorities in bringing anyone to justice for the Carandiru killings has reinforced […]


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A judicial panel in Brazil last week threw out the convictions of 74 military police previously sentenced for murdering 111 inmates at São Paulo's notorious Carandiru Penitentiary, on grounds.


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Armed police last night ended the largest uprising in Brazilian penal history when they persuaded inmates at Carandiru prison, one of the most bizarre and unruly jails in the world, to release.


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Twenty-five police have been given long sentences for their part in the 1992 massacre in Sao Paulo's Carandiru jail that left 111 prisoners dead. Each officer received 624 years for the death of.


Designing with Light Mauricio Sapata and The Carandiru Prison

Carandiru was once Latin America's largest prison, with 7,500 inmates, but the government shut it down in 2002, in part because of its violent history: in 1992, 111 inmates were killed in what is known as the Carandiru massacre. After the prison essentially imploded, then-Governor Geraldo Alckmin announced "a shift in Brazil's penal.


Brazil jail massacre Vigil marks Carandiru anniversary BBC News

The Carandiru Penitentiary is the inspiration for the Penitenciaría Federal de Sona; the prison the fictional TV character, Michael Scofield, was incarcerated in during the third season of the US television series Prison Break. [6] Jorge Aragão refers to Carandiru in his song "O Iraque é Aqui".


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Carandiru Prison, Sao Paulo Brazil Brazil's Carandiru prison was the deadliest jail in the world - with a total of 1,300 prisoners killed by fellow convicts, guards and a rampant Aids epidemic. The bloodiest single incident was the 1992 massacre, when military police stormed the dungeon and shot dead 113 inmates - mostly at close range.


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The incident was started by a prisoner revolt. At around 13:30 BRT (16:30 GMT), prison director José Ismael Pedrosa was warned that a fight had started between two groups in cell block 9 after a game of football. The groups were led by the inmates Luiz Tavares de Azevedo, known as "Coelho", and Antonio Luiz Nascimento, known as "Barba". [2]


Designing with Light Mauricio Sapata and The Carandiru Prison

6 years later I knocked on the iron door of Carandiru, a São Paulo penitentiary housing 7400 inmates, where I decided to make an educational video about how HIV was spreading there.. Injectable cocaine was the most fashionable drug in the poorest neighbourhoods and inside the prison. The results showed that 17·3% of the prisoners were HIV.