Las cárceles en Brasil: un campo de batalla en la guerra de las drogas

La guerra entre bandas por cuestiones de drogas, cada vez más intensa, está alimentando un baño de sangre en las cárceles de Brasil, que padecen una situación de abandono y hacinamiento. Más información, en inglés, está disponible abajo.

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By Sam Cowie

It was early evening on January 1, 2017, when Maria heard that a riot was under way at Complexo Penitenciario Anisio Jobim (COMPAJ) - the prison where her two sons Antony, 27, and Antonio, 22, were being held.

Maria - an alias she requested for security reasons - spoke to Al Jazeera from her small red brick home in a poor Manaus neighbourhood.

Her son Antonio had been sent to the prison in September, his third sentence for stealing motorbikes. He entered as a marked man, having supposedly informed on someone when he was arrested.

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