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  • Updated: March 18, 2020

Prison Break: Brazil Recaptures Inmates

Prison Break: Brazil Recaptures Inmates

Inmates in Brazilian minimum security prisons who had escaped after their usual temporary furloughs that grant them the right to leave was suspended over the global virus pandemic have been recaptured, this is according to Brazilian authorities.

A total of1,375 inmates fled the prison yards, with 586 inmates back in police custody, with 789 others still at large, after a riot broke out in the four prisons in the state of São Paulo, Brazil's financial center.

The riots in the prisons were as a result of the suspension of the prisoners' rights to leave for their homes, as they are given five weeks to visit home annually. 

The fears of prison authorities are that the prisoners who broke free from prison would bring “heightened risk of spreading the new coronavirus among a vulnerable population.”

The total number of escaped prisoners is still being examined, this is according to the state penitentiary administration.

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Those who are granted a leave of absence to visit their homes occasionally, and leave during the daytime for work are being held in  “semi-open prisons.”

An official of the state prisons, Nivaldo Cesar Restivo, at a press briefing said that the recaptured escapees “will lose the right to benefit from the semi-open system.”

“They will now serve their sentences in normal prisons.”

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