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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 22 January 2018

Brazil’s justice ministry investigates escape from Boa Vista prison

Development: On 21 January, Brazil’s justice ministry released a statement confirming that the government of Roraima state will investigate all aspects of the 19 January breakout from the Penitenciária Agrícola de Monte Cristo (PAMC) prison in which 92 prisoners escaped through a tunnel. As of the 22 January, 16 of the escapees had been recaptured by the authorities.

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