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The Carandiru massacre (Portuguese: Massacre do Carandiru, Portuguese: [mɐˈsakɾi du kɐɾɐ̃dʒiˈɾu]) occurred on 2 October 1992, in Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil, when military police stormed the penitentiary following a prison riot.
Carandiru Penitentiary, officially São Paulo House of Detention (Portuguese: Casa de Detenção de São Paulo) was a prison located in São Paulo, Brazil. [1] The prison was designed and built by Samuel das Neves in 1920, when it was considered a model-prison to meet the new demands of the 1890 criminal code.
Carandiru is a 2003 drama film directed by Héctor Babenco. It is based on the book Estação Carandiru by Dr. Drauzio Varella, a physician and AIDS specialist, who is portrayed in the film by Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos. [1] Carandiru tells some of the stories that occurred in Carandiru Penitentiary, which was the
Moises Teixeira da Silva is a convicted robber who escaped São Paulo, Brazil's Carandiru prison with about 100 others through a tunnel in 2001. He was serving a 25-year sentence at the time. Since his escape, Moisés is suspected of masterminding two major bank robberies in Brazil in 2005.
Two inmates escaped from a maximum security prison in northeastern Brazil, the first time detainees manage to escape from one of the country's five maximum security federal penitentiaries ...
At least 200 prisoners escaped from a minimum-security Brazil prison during an uprising on Thursday.
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Guimarães was the high-ranking police officer commanding the São Paulo military police in the infamous Carandiru prison massacre.He repeated that he had a "clear conscience" and always defended the operation, [3] saying the order to invade the cellblock was meant to save lives as he feared that a fire set by inmates could spread. [4]