As many as 1,000 prisoners broke out of four Brazilian jails overnight in riots over a coronavirus crackdown. The raging lags escaped from prisons after they were told they would be denied day-release in a bid to prevent killer coronavirus entering the jail upon their return.
Hundreds of prisoners broke out of four Brazilian jails on Monday, the day before their day-release privileges were due to be suspended over the coronavirus outbreak, local media reported.
The Sao Paulo state prison authority said it could not say how many inmates had escaped as it was "still tallying the exact number of fugitives." Local media reported that as many as 1,000 had fled from four jails – Mongagua, Tremembe, Porto Feliz and Mirandópolis – ahead of the
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