Posted on 05/27/2019 10:20:51 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Officials told the Agencia Brasil news agency that 15 prisoners were found dead Sunday and another 42 Monday in the city of Manaus, the capital of the state of Amazonas. Many appeared to have been asphyxiated.
Police did not say what prompted the riots.
The Ministry of Justice and Public Safety said it would send a task force to the region, while the state prison secretary also announced an investigation
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At roughly the same time frame 39 prisoners died in a riot in the city jails in Caracas.
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An ISIS Prison riot in Tajikistan also:
https://www.eurasiatimes.org/en/21/05/2019/isis-prison-riot-in-tajikistan-leaves-32-dead/
A stupid question but, could the Brazil prison system legally open a travel office in the US for our non citizen prisoners ?
Perhaps they could sell vacations cheaper than US incarceration costs ?
Brazilian inmates routinely riot, slaughter each other and post videos of the carnage on the Internet. It’s one of their sports, like soccer.
why am I fighting the urge to paraphrase Gen. Wm. T. Sherman here? LOL
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