SOC 3740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Primeiro Comando Da Capital, Headcount, Extortion
19 Dec 2016
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Six members of the local human rights council, an official watchdog, turned up at. Romeu gon alves de abrantes prison in jo o pessoa, the capital of the state of para ba i(cid:374) brazil"s poor (cid:374)orth-east. Inside they found filthy, overcrowded cells holding sick, thirsty prisoners, some with untreated injuries. The prison guards refused to open the door of the locked punishment wing, which reeked of vomit and faeces. So the visitors passed a camera in through a ventilation shaft. It came back with images of naked prisoners crowded into bare, unlit cells. Though the guards said the i(cid:374)(cid:373)ates (cid:449)ere (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g held like this (cid:862)te(cid:373)porarily(cid:863) (cid:271)e(cid:272)ause of a planned jailbreak, they had been there for four days. The guards demanded the camera be handed over. When the council members refused, all six were detained. They were held for three hours before other state officials turned up and freed them.
