At least 150 inmates escaped from a prison in Brazil on Tuesday after a mass a riot broke out. <br /><br /> Aerial footage showed heavy smoke coming from the jail in Bauru, some 350 kilometres west of Sao Paulo, after it was set on fire.<br /><br /> Brazilian prison authorities say 90 of the escapee prisoners have been recaptured and the facility is now under control. <br /><br /> The riot is the latest in a wave of violence to hit Brazil’s jails, which suffer from chronic overcrowding. <br /><br /> According to official data, more than 620,000 adults are behind bars – almost 70 percent more than the country’s prisons were built to hold.<br /><br /> Earlier this week, in another jail in the north east of Brazil, shipping containers were used to seperate rival gangs after 26 inmates were killed. <br /><br /> Since the start of the year, around 140 people are thought to have been killed inside Brazil’s prison system.<br />
