Tag: prison gangs

• Thursday, February 25th 2021 - 09:05 UTC

  Gangs' war in Ecuadorian jails death toll climbs to 79, and remains out of control

  

  Ecuador raised the death toll from riots in four jails to 79, including 18 prisoners who were found dismembered at one site, one of the bloodiest outbreaks of prison violence in the country’s history.

• Wednesday, July 31st 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Inmates of Brazilian prison riots transferred to other jails; drug gangs rivalry and fighting out of control

  

  Forty-six inmates involved in one of Brazil's deadliest prison riots were being transferred to other jails on Tuesday, an official said. At least 57 people were killed on Monday when fighting broke out between rival drug gang factions in the Altamira Regional Recovery Centre in the northern state of Para.

• Tuesday, July 30th 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  Brazilian prison gangs' rivalry leave at least 57 inmates killed, many decapitated

  

  At least 57 inmates were killed in a prison riot in northern Brazil on Monday as rival gang factions fought each other, an official said. Sixteen of the dead were decapitated in the second major eruption of violence to rock the country's severely overpopulated and deadly prison system in as many months.