Brazil’s Second Grisly Prison Riot Leaves More Than 30 Inmates Dead
Battle for control of cocaine smuggling routes results in country’s second riot this week
SÃO PAULO—More than 30 inmates were killed, many of them mutilated, in Brazil’s second gory prison riot this week as jail-based drug gangs fight over cocaine-smuggling routes and the government struggles to manage the country’s overcrowded prisons.
The state government of Roraima in northern Brazil said 33 inmates were killed early Friday...