56 inmates dead and other 144 escaped from the prison in Manaus capital of Amazonas Brazil, a country found in South America, after the eruption of fighting between the gangs which involves FND and PCC on Saturday, officials said on Monday.
The heavily armed police has started the hunting of the escaped inmates, who used the series of tunnels in Anisio Jobim penitentiary complex.
According to police report; 40 escaped inmates have been already captured, police force have succeeded to free 12 prison guard who were kept hostage by the gangs. Early on Monday a lot of people marched to the gate of Anisio Jobim penitentiary complex to ask the information about their relatives. Blooded and beheaded bodies were found in the area and caused a great shock to the onlookers.
Finally the police force succeeded to restore an order and let normal operation activities to continue.
Crime history in Brazil
Brazil saw a massive exodus of rural dwellers towards the main urban centers of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro from the 1950s to 1970s, which led to the growth of informal settlements known as “favelas.” The inequality and poverty of the country as a whole was intensified in favelas, which lacked state presence, making them ideal breeding grounds for an explosion of organized crime.
In the 1950s, a powerful criminal mafia began to form around the “bicho,” or the animal game, an illegal gambling racket that became hugely popular in the country. The bosses who ran the game built up large fortunes, laundering their profits through legitimate companies, and branched out into contract killing and prostitution rings, buying off police and politicians. The power of the bicheiros, or animal game bosses, would peak in the 1980s, when they began laundering money through Rio de Janeiro’s Carnival.
Meanwhile organized criminal groups were also developing in the brutal squalor of the country’s prisons. Indeed, Brazil's organized criminal groups got their start in the prisons and only later grew to conquer the streets. The country’s biggest gangs, the Red Commandand First Capital Command (PCC), both began in the prisons, in the early 1970s and the 1990s respectively, before spreading out first onto the streets of Rio and Sao Paulo and then into states around the country and even internationally.
During the 1970s, with the entrance of large quantities of cocaine into Brazil, links began to emerge among the bicheiros, drug cartels, and local traffickers. As the global cocaine market boomed in the 1980s, Brazil attracted the biggest South American drug producers as a transit point for drugs bound for the European and US markets. Colombian cartels moved into Brazilian territory, attracted by its location and the availability of precursor chemicals, smuggling cocaine into the country in base form. They began to install laboratories close to the points of sale and disembarkation to European and US markets.
Vigilante groups made up of current and former members of the police, known as militias, have emerged in cities under the premise of fighting drug gangs. However, they have moved into operating their own criminal rackets, including extortion and kidnapping schemes.
The national homicide rate has jumped slightly in recent years, going from 22 per 100,000 in 2004, to 25.2 in 2012. While parts of southern Brazil, including its largest city São Paulo, are safer lately, violence and crime in the country’s violent northeast is rising fast.
It is a high time for the authority to see critically the connection between the prison structure and environment, the drug trade and the poverty. In realizing these connection the authorities will be able to address the root causes of riots like in the country.
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