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Weekly Report - 20 October 2016 (WR-16-41)

BRAZIL: Riots underline urgent need for prison reform

Brazil’s prisons are notoriously dilapidated and overcrowded, but a dangerous cocktail of poor management, growing violence between rival criminal gangs and a 30% cut to security sector budgets has led to an increase in prison riots. Local human-rights groups have renewed their calls for reform of a broken system.

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