Скачать или смотреть Relatives wait for bodies of Brazil prison riot victims

(1 Aug 2019) Relatives of victims killed in a prison riot in Brazil gathered outside of the Altamira morgue for a third day on Thursday, in hopes of recovering the remains of their loved ones for burial.
On Monday, a gang at the Altamira prison in northern Brazil attacked rivals within the walls and set fire to a temporary cell block.
Officials say 58 people were decapitated or asphyxiated by the fire.
Four others were apparently strangled by other inmates in the aftermath as prisoners were being transferred to supposedly safer lockups.
The forensic institute said it has so far released 27 bodies to their families.
The remaining 31 required DNA testing for full identification, or their families lacked the required documentation to retrieve their bodies.
Brazil already has more than 720,000 individuals behind bars, according to official data from 2017.
More recent independent estimates have the current incarcerated population at over 800,000 -more than triple the number in 2000.
The country has continued to build more prisons to try to keep up with its ever-growing incarcerated population.
The national prison department recently announced that about 20,000 new cell spaces would be created by the end of the year.
But it already faced a shortage of 302,758 cell spaces as of July 2017.
Overcrowding has left prison guards severely outnumbered, struggling to keep control of inmates, and has repeatedly blamed as a key factor in Brazil's recurring prison riots and massacres.
Two days of clashes in the neighbouring state of Amazonas in May left 55 prisoners dead in four different prisons of the state's capital, Manaus.
In 2017, more than 120 prisoners died in another string of violent episodes that lasted several weeks, spreading to various states.

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