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Brazilian Cops Charged in Prison Massacre
Loaded on May 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
May, 1993, page 16
In Brazil 121 police officers have been formally charged with the murder of at least 111 prisoners at Carandiru prison in Sao Paulo on October 2, 1992, when they invaded the prisons cell block 9 on the pretext of quelling a riot. [PLN, Vol. 4, No. 1.]
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Police Misconduct,
Crime/Demographics,
Criminal Prosecution,
Prisoners-International.
Location:
Brazil.
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