Kill in prison outbreak in Brazil

sao paulo - In a prison outbreak near the Brazilian capital Brasilia, nine prisoners were killed and fourteen were injured. According to the daily newspaper O Estado de São Paulo, 106 prisoners escaped from the prison of the town of Goiânia on Monday. The police were only able to capture 27 escapees again.

One of the nine deaths would have been beheaded in the uprisings. In a large prison revolt in the northeast of Brazil a year ago, 56 people were killed, many of whom were beheaded.

At the beginning of 2017, more than 130 people were killed in prison violence in Brazil, mostly caused by rivalry between gangs. The South American country suffers from major violence problems in prisons, which are overcrowded. In O Estado de São Paulo, the head of the Brazilian union for prison guards criticized government policy for the prison in Goiânia. For example, he stated that only five guards are deployed in the night to supervise more than 900 prisoners.