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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 30 January 2017

Anarchy and bloodshed in Brazil’s prisons

In the first fortnight of 2017, over 130 prisoners died during prison riots across the country, as the power struggle between some of Brazil’s biggest drug gangs was played out behind bars.

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