Brazil to move inmates after deadly jail riot
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BRAZILIAN government officials will relocate gang leaders to other federal penitentiaries after the country’s deadliest prison riot in decades left 56 inmates dead in a scene of mutilated and burnt bodies this week, officials said.
Justice Minister Alexandre de Moraes said authorities would move quickly to identify and transfer the gang bosses out of the crowded jail in the remote jungle state of Amazonas where the riot occurred on Monday.
A local drug gang known as North Family, which controls the prison complex in the northern city of Manaus, attacked inmates from a rival criminal group that encroached on its turf, exchanging fire with police and taking a dozen prison guards hostage, officials said.
Machete-wielding gangs decapitated inmates and threw their bodies over a wall of Anisio Jobim prison.
The riot was the deadliest since the 1992 rebellion at the Carandiru prison in Sao Paulo state in which 111 inmates were killed.
Police hunted for more than 100 inmates who escaped from the prison during the riot, which lasted about 17 hours.
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