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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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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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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 […]


Carandiru Penitentiary Massacre

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.


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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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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

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]


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

In October 1992, inmates at the Carandiru prison in São Paulo staged a riot that was brutally quelled by law enforcement, with 111 men killed in just 30 minutes. The officers claimed self-defense, but the murdered men were unarmed and several had bullet wounds in the back of their heads, a clear sign of execution.


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In Brazil, Carandiru is perhaps best known as the site of the massacre on October 2, 1992, in which a massive fight broke out, resulting in the deaths of 111 inmates; the penitentiary's.


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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.


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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.


Complexo Penitenciário Carandiru antes da demolição. Conhecido por sua… Presidio, Big Ben, Ali

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.


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

Carandiru Penitentiary, the infamous prison located in São Paulo, Brazil, carries a heavy legacy in the annals of history. Have you ever heard about it? Built in the 1920s, the facility grew into one of the largest prisons in Latin America. So, what's the tale behind its walls? The Historical Context


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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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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".


Brazil jail massacre Vigil marks Carandiru anniversary BBC News

North County Correctional Facility, Los Angeles County aerial view. North County Correctional Facility (NCCF) is a Los Angeles County jail, run by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.Located approximately 40 miles (64 km) northwest of downtown Los Angeles, it is one of four jails located within the Pitchess Detention Center (named after former Sheriff Peter J. Pitchess), in Castaic.