Brazil Prison Riot Leaves 9 Dead<br />In comments on Monday the newspaper Folha de São Paulo, the head of Brazil’s prison guard union, Jorimar Bastos, criticized the<br />resources allocated for oversight at the Goiânia prison, saying only five guards were assigned to watch over 900 prisoners.<br />1, 2018<br />SÃO PAULO, Brazil — Nine inmates were killed, 14 were injured and dozens escaped in a prison riot on Monday, the national news media reported.<br />One of the inmates killed in the mayhem was decapitated, news organizations reported, recalling a prison riot<br />that occurred one year ago in the Amazon in which 56 people died.<br />According to a newspaper, O Estado de São Paulo, 106 prisoners escaped the prison in the city of Goiânia, near the capital, Brasília.<br />That riot, which was rooted in a longstanding gang rivalry, came at the beginning of a January<br />marred by widespread prison violence, with 130 prisoners dying in the first 20 days of 2017.
