A group of fifteen police officers have been sentenced to 48 years in prison for killing four inmates during a police operation in the now-defunct São Paulo Penitentiary. The incident became known as ...

The jail was demolished in 2002, but the state has been slow to bring the perpetrators to trial Twenty-five police have been given long sentences for their part in the 1992 massacre in Sao Paulo's ...

A man walks next to 111 painted cell doors displayed at Casa de Detencao at the Carandiru prison complex, as part of an instalation by Brazilian artist Siron Franco, in Sao Paulo, September 20, 2002.

Hector Babenco’s brutal yet involving prison drama, “Carandiru,” immediately drops us from high in the sky above Sao Paulo directly down inside the dark, dank walls of the infamous Casa de Detencao -- ...

From its very first scenes–showing the arrival of a young doctor of shining goodwill and naivete at boisterous Carandiru prison in Sao Paolo, Brazil–Hector Babenco’s “Carandiru” is a prison movie of ...

There were numerous riots at Carandiru before the jail was demolished in 2002. A court in Brazil has sentenced 23 police officers each to 156 years in jail for involvement in a notorious 1992 prison ...

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When a doctor decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo - Carandiru, he meets the future victims of one of the darkest ...

YEREVAN, AUGUST 3, ARMENPRESS: Twenty-five police have been given life sentences for their part in the 1992 massacre in Sao Paulo's Carandiru jail that left 111 prisoners dead, reports Armenpress ...