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Montevideo, July 29th 2025 - 08:04 UTC

Tag: prison riots

  • Monday, June 16th 2025 - 19:52 UTC

    Four inmates killed in Uruguayan prison fire

    Similar incidents had been reported at the same detention facility last year

    Four inmates were killed Monday in a Montevideo jailhouse riot resulting in a fire, Uruguay's Interior Ministry confirmed. The casualties at the Santiago Vázquez Prison (Formerly known as Comcar) were aged 23, 27, 34, and 47, respectively, the authorities also acknowledged. The crisis started at approximately 1 pm when a fire broke out in a cell in Module 11 of Unit 4 following a confrontation between prisoner groups in nearby cells.

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

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

    Inmates involved in the fighting, including 16 leaders suspected of ordering the riot, were being transported on Tuesday by bus or plane to federal prisons

    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.