Posted on 07/29/2019 8:20:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin
57 prisoners were killed by other inmates during clashes between organized crime groups in the Altamira prison in northern Brazil Monday with 16 of the victims being decapitated, according to prison officials.
Para state prison authorities said a fight erupted around 7 a.m. between the Rio de Janeiro-based Comando Vermelho and a local criminal group known as Comando Classe A.
“Leaders of the (Comando Classe A) set fire to a cell belonging to one of the prison’s pavilions, where members of the (Comando Vermelho) were located,” the statement read.
State prisons chief Jarbas Vasconcelos said the fire had spread rapidly with inmates held in old container units that had been adapted for the prison while another building is under construction.
The fire prevented police forces from entering the building for several hours, he told a news conference. Two prison staff members were held hostage, but eventually released.
“It was a targeted attack. The aim was to show that it was a settling of accounts between the two groups, not a protest or rebellion against the prison system,” Vasconcelos said.
Prison authorities said 46 inmates will be transferred to other prisons, 10 of which will go to stricter federal facilities.
President Jair Bolsonaro was elected on the promise of curbing widespread violence in Brazil, including in the country’s often overcrowded, out-of-control prisons.
In many of Brazil’s prisons, badly outnumbered guards struggle to retain power over an ever-growing population of inmates who are able to run criminal activities from behind bars.
The killings echoed those of 55 inmates who died in a series of riots in May in several prisons in the neighboring state of Amazonas.
In early 2017, more than 120 inmates died in prisons across several northern states when rival gangs clashed over control of drug-trafficking routes in the region.
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Sounds like Attica.
They lost their heads.
Thanks BenLurkin. You know, those inmates who did the beheadings should get some prison time for what they did...
Celebrate Diversity!
Was the Dutch kid, van der sloot one of them? He was the one that killed Natalie Holloway.
Maybe they could set up huge gang wars between prison gangs from different countries.
Charge PPV to watch it.
I wonder how American prison gangs would stack up against some of thee sick South American and African gangs.
One gang in Africa, the leader takes a bite out of the hearts of the dead enemies.
When they find out who is responsible for this heads will roll.
Wrong country.
There is a certain percentage of Brazilians who remain very closely linked (genetically, culturally) to their Inca ancestors. This is made evident from their tendency for and tolerance of bloody violence.
There was a ritual of human sacrifice, usually of captured soldiers or certain children to Inti, their Sun God. This was seen as something necessary to gain nature’s approval for bountiful harvests. Starting in 1532, Spanish invaders began to dominate and then decimate the Incas. This was mainly done by spreading diseases.
I wonder how many who died had info on corrupt politicians up and down the Americas?
Snort!
Joran van der Sloot is incarcerated in Peru, not Brazil.
Hopefully they sterilized the knives so there were no infections.
Brazilians don’t mess around.
The Global South.
The drank too much decap coffee.
South American Gladiators.
Hosted by Richard Dawson.
LOL
That was good :)
Mental note to self: Don’t end up in a Brazilian prison.
The Brazilian democRAT party just doin’ what they do.
Won’t be long before the dem pols are doing the same thing here starting with the Fraud Squad. Most of them are already criminals anyway.
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