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Word: carandiru (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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First reports were that only eight prisoners had been killed Oct. 2 when police stormed Carandiru penitentiary in Brazil's commercial capital of Sao Paulo to quell a riot. But then surviving prisoners began telling investigators and grieving relatives tales of a savage slaughter: prisoners allegedly machine-gunned as they ran for their cells, others gunned down inside their cells by police shouting "Your time has come." Some of the injured were reportedly dragged to a prison workshop, where they were torn apart by attack dogs. Row on row of naked prisoners' bodies were lined up in a local morgue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cellblock Slaughter | 10/19/1992 | See Source »

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