After the massacre in a prison in northern Brazil, they find new bodies in prisons | Chronic

Prisoners killed in Brazil's prisons rose to 57 on Monday, finding at least 42 other detainees in three different jails in Manaus, capital of the state of Amazonas, in the north of the country, after Sunday's mbadacre in another prison in this city. that leaves 15 dead, which further reveals the prison crisis that affects several regions of Brazil.

The Secretariat of the Prison Administration of Amazonas said in a statement that several detainees "They died dead hanging" The EFE news agency reported inside their cell three penitentiary units of Manaus.

Brazilian authorities said the deaths were discovered during an inspection of security forces in Manaus prisons, during which they also found that at least four prisoners had been injured.

It was in the course of an operation of the security forces to monitor the penitentiary system of Amazonas, a day after the new mbadacre perpetrated in the complex Anísio Jobim (Compaj), in the capital of the state of the north of the country.

According to the Brazilian authorities, a "prisoner brawl" in two lodges of this unit resulted in the death of 15 detainees aged between 21 and 42 years.

The action of the intervention group on penitentiaries prevented a major tragedy by controlling the situation in just under an hour, avoiding further killings and a mbadive exodus of detainees, the same sources added.

On the basis of this event, the government of Amazonas began today the inspection of its penitentiary system and applied a series of temporary restrictions to all units in the region, such as the suspension visits.

In addition, he said that a "new investigation" had been opened to expedite the latest crimes and identify the perpetrators.

In 2017, at the same complex Anisio Jobim, 56 prisoners were killed in a fight between rival factions, which showed the considerable power they have in the country's prisons and highlighted the insecurity, overcrowding and poor conditions of detention. Brazilian

Immediately following the Compaj tragedy in 2017, another mbadacre took place in the state of Roraima in the north of the country, killing 33 people in the lives of several detainees.

Rebellions are common in Brazil's penitentiary system, considered by international organizations as one of the "worst" and "most inhuman".

Brazil has the third largest prison population in the world, with 726,712 detainees in 2016, about twice the capacity of the penitentiary system.