Roraima’s top security official Uziel de Castro blamed Friday’s violence at the state-run prison on the PCC. He later added that it was believed most of the inmates killed Friday were not members of the group responsible for this week’s attack on the PCC in Amazonas and indeed had no gang affiliations. Justice Minister Alexandre Moraes insisted that the government had control over Brazil’s prison system – the fourth largest in world and home to more than 620,000 inmates.
Security experts had predicted more violence in Brazil’s gang-controlled penitentiaries in the wake of Monday’s massacre. “It’s getting really ugly. This situation is clearly snowballing and there is nothing the government can do to stop the violence in the short term,” said Rafael Alcadipani, a public security expert at the Getulio Vargas Foundation think tank in Sao Paulo.
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