Incarceration Crisis: 1 Killed Every Day in Brazil's Prisons
Incarceration Crisis: 1 Killed Every Day in Brazil's Prisons
Published 5 January 2017 (11 hours 43 minutes ago)
Will Brazilian authorities deal with overcrowding and security weaknesses inside prisons?
In 2016, 372 inmates were killed in Brazil, an average of one each day, a statistic that casts a heavy shadow as the South American country continues to deal with the consequences days after the largest prison riot massacre in decades.
With over 600,000 people currently incarcerated — a rate of 306 prisoners for every 100,000 citizens — Brazil has the fourth-largest prison population in the world and the largest in Latin America.
Two days after the Manaus massacre, Brazilian President Michel Temer said there was confusion about the role government forces should have played during the riot, the country's bloodiest prison massacre in more than two decades.
Sergio Fontes, secretary of public security, said the Manaus prison had a capacity for 592 inmates, but at the time of the riot housed 1,224 — over two times its official capacity.
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