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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.
Apr 3, 2014 · A court in Brazil has sentenced 15 policemen to lengthy jail sentences for their role in putting down a notorious prison riot more than two decades ago. The judge sentenced each of the officers to...
Apr 15, 2013 · Twenty-six police officers have gone on trial in Brazil for the killing of 15 inmates in one of the country’s most infamous prisons two decades ago. The 1992 military operation in São Paulo’s Carandiru prison left more than 100 prisoners dead.
Carandiru Penitentiary is today remembered as one of the worst prisons in the history of modern world, and the place of one of the largest human rights violations in the history of Brazil. Built by the Samuel das Neves to meet all the demands of the 1890 criminal code, this prison became so overcrowded at the end of the 20th century that ...
Apr 21, 2013 · Military police stormed Sao Paulo's Carandiru prison in 1992 to quell a riot sparked by a fight between two rival gangs that started with a quarrel during a soccer game.
Apr 21, 2013 · A court in Brazil has sentenced 23 police officers each to 156 years in jail for involvement in a notorious 1992 prison massacre in Sao Paulo.
Aug 3, 2013 · Twenty-five police have been given long sentences for their part in the 1992 massacre in Sao Paulo's Carandiru jail that left 111 prisoners dead. Each officer received 624 years for the death...
Oct 3, 2012 · Riot police killed 111 inmates after entering the Carandiru jail, in central Sao Paulo, to put an end to a riot. Relatives and human rights activists are demanding justice, saying the inmates...
Apr 15, 2013 · More than 20 years after São Paulo state police repressed a jail riot in Carandiru prison, killing 111 prisoners, 26 rank and file police officers who allegedly took part on the deadly operation are due to face trial – the first of four trials opens today after being adjourned last week.
Nov 18, 2022 · Supreme Court Justice Luís Roberto Barroso on Thursday ruled as final and unappealable two decisions related to the convictions of the police officers who carried out the Carandiru massacre in 1992, the deadliest case of prison violence in Brazil’s recent history.