LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 17 March 2020

On 16 March, several hundred prisoners staged riots and escaped from prisons in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, after authorities suspended visits and exits as part of efforts to limit the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19).

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