Two Hundred Prisoners Escaped A Prison In Brazil

World News Rudolph Rodriquez
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At least 200 inmates escaped from a minimum security prison in Brazil as a result of a riot, but about half were caught several hours after, the authorities said, according to the Reuters news agency.

The prisoners escaped from the Jardinopolis prison, located about 160 kilometers northwest of Sao Paulo.

Authorities said that the inmates set fire to several cells during the morning of Thursday and during the erupted chaos a lot of them managed to escape.

In the chaos that followed, inmates knocked down a security fence that was four meters high and fled into the sugarcane fields around the prison and on the thread of a river that was also close by.

There is still no information about any casualties that would have happened during the incident.

Riots and escapes are common in the Brazilian prisons. The country is harshly criticized by the human rights organizations because of the prison conditions they are offering.

Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper said that the prison had 1,800 inmates in it, even though it was only designed for 1,000 of them.

The authorities declined to say what kind of crimes those who escaped the prison have committed.

In some prisons in Brazil, the law is made by the inmates. Although there is one guard to 31 detainees, they have no power over those imprisoned within the walls of the prison. Those who run the prisons are called ‘chaveiros’. They are called like that even by the prison management, which cannot handle a large number of prisoners and then gives some power to the chaveiros so they can maintain somehow the discipline.