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    Carandiru Penitentiary, officially São Paulo House of Detention (Portuguese: Casa de Detenção de São Paulo) was a prison located in São Paulo, Brazil....
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    The Carandiru massacre (Portuguese: Massacre do Carandiru, Portuguese: [mɐˈsakɾi du kɐɾɐ̃dʒiˈɾu]) occurred on 2 October 1992, in Carandiru Penitentiary...
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  • Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos. Carandiru tells some of the stories that occurred in Carandiru Penitentiary, which was the biggest prison in Latin America. The...
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  • O Estado de S. Paulo (in Portuguese). 25 September 2012. Retrieved 19 April 2013. Michael Wilmington (28 May 2004). "'Carandiru' a prison drama that...
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  • Pardelup Prison Farm Roebourne Regional Prison Wandoo Reintegration Facility West Kimberley Regional Prison Wooroloo Prison Farm Carandiru Penitentiary...
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    Richthofen case (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    she feared being harassed in another prison - a fact that had already happened when she was imprisoned in Carandiru. She also claimed that she needed the...
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    Attica Prison Riot, also known as the Attica Prison Rebellion, the Attica Uprising, or the Attica Prison Massacre, took place at the state prison in Attica...
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  • A prison riot is an act of concerted defiance or disorder by a group of prisoners against the prison administrators, prison officers, or other groups...
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  • On 20 June 2023, a prison riot broke out in the Women's Center for Social Adaptation, a women's prison located in Támara, Honduras, about 29 km (18 mi)...
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    A prison, also known as a jail, gaol, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, or remand center, is a facility where people...
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    Drauzio Varella (category Carandiru Penitentiary)
    volunteered to work as an unpaid physician in one of the largest prisons of Brazil, the Carandiru, in order to tackle the fearsome AIDS epidemics raging among...
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    The 1974 Huntsville Prison siege was an eleven-day prison uprising that took place from July 24 to August 3, 1974, at the Huntsville Walls Unit of the...
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    Documentaries, including "Carandiru.doc" about Carandiru Detention Center and the filming process of Hector Babenco's movie inside the prison. She wrote Olga,...
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  • Paradiso Canon City Captain America: Civil War Captain Blood (1935) Captives Carandiru The Case Is Closed, Forget It Castle on the Hudson Cell 211 Cell 2455...
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  • has led him to photograph slums (or favelas) and prisons such as the one in Sao Paulo known as Carandiru (later demolished). The latter pictures were shown...
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    Chapo Guzman se fuga de la carcel CNN July 12, 2015 "Joaquin Guzman-Loera". U.S. Department of State. Escape tunnel found at Iraqi prison CNN.com March 25...
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    HM Prison Ford (informally known as Ford Open Prison) is a Category D men's prison, located at Ford, in West Sussex, England, near Arundel and Littlehampton...
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  • region. After being denounced, he was arrested and sentenced to prison at the Carandiru Penitentiary. Psychiatric examinations requested by the court led...
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  • of the Brazilian prison system since the slaughter of Carandiru (1992). The next day, four more inmates were killed at another prison in Manaus. Five days...
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    Desejos de Mulher. On the following year, he started gaining some notoriety after starring on the critically acclaimed Hector Babenco film Carandiru, about...
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  • police officer commanding the São Paulo military police in the infamous Carandiru prison massacre. He repeated that he had a "clear conscience" and always defended...
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    south of Santa Fe, was the most violent prison riot in U.S. history. Inmates took complete control of the prison and twelve officers were taken hostage...
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    primary role in the killing of 111 inmates that followed the 1992 Carandiru prison riot. In a 2013 testimony, one of the officers involved in the action...
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  • incarcerated at the Carandiru Penitentiary, he was granted parole under the conditions that he be supervised by family members. De Marco then settled in...
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  • a drug kingpin in Brazil, leading to a terrifying term in the deadly Carandiru Penitentiary. Episode 10: Nicaragua/I Am Not A Terrorist Duane Wollum...
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  • in Carandiru Penitentiary. The group dissolved in 2003 when the musicians decided to follow solo careers. The group emerged in the Carandiru prison where...
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  • The September 2021 Guayaquil prison riot occurred at the Litoral Penitentiary in Guayaquil, Ecuador on 28 September 2021. At least 123 inmates were killed...
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  • On 20 August 2012, armed prisoners in the Yare I prison complex, an overcrowded prison in Miranda state near Caracas, Venezuela, rioted. A shootout between...
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    Primeiro Comando da Capital (category Prison gangs)
    victims of the previous year's Carandiru massacre, when the São Paulo State Military Police stormed the now-defunct Carandiru Penitentiary and massacred prisoners...
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    The Montana State Prison is a men's correctional facility of the Montana Department of Corrections in unincorporated Powell County, Montana, about 3.5...
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