Carandiru prison massacre;23 police officers bagged 156 years jailterm each in Brazil
NO fewer than 23 police officers were each sentenced to 156 years in jail by a court in Brazil for involvement in a notorious 1992 prison massacre in Sao Paulo.
The officers were convicted of killing 13 inmates in the city’s Carandiru jail during an operation to end a revolt.
In all, 111 prisoners died, and prosecutors argued that most of them were shot dead at close range.
But the officers’ lawyers said they would appeal. Three other policemen were acquitted during the trial.
Meanwhile, three inmates who took 16 people hostage during an attempted jailbreak in central Brazil surrendered early Sunday, a police spokesman said.
“They surrendered, one at 1:00 am (0400 GMT) and the other two at 7:00 am,” Anesio Barbosa da Cruz Junior, a spokesman for Goias state military police, told Agence France Presse (AFP) by telephone.
After seizing a revolver and subduing a prison guard on Saturday, the trio demanded cars and bulletproof vests to attempt a getaway from the jail in the town of Aparecida de Goiania, but their plan was foiled, he added.
The prisoners then retreated to the jail infirmary where, in addition to the prison guard, they held three nurses and 12 fellow inmates who were being treated there, the spokesman added
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