SAO PAULO – Authorities said at least 40 prisoners in Brazil were found strangled to death on Monday in four jails in the Amazon jungle city of Manaus, where a fight between rival prison gangs resulted in 15 deaths the day before.
In Jan. 2017, nearly 150 prisoners died during three weeks of violence in north and northeastern Brazil, as local gangs backed by Brazil’s two largest drug factions – the First Capital Command and the Red Command – butchered one another.
Amazonas state penitentiary department said authorities had regained control of the four prisons. (Reuters)
