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Weekly Report - 19 January 2017 (WR-17-02)
BRAZIL: Over 130 inmates die in prison riots
Even for Brazil, hardly a stranger to violence, the first few weeks of 2017 have been decidedly bloody. A series of riots has broken out at various prisons across the Northern states of Amazonas and Rio Grande do Norte and Roraima, leaving a trail of dead bodies in its wake.
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