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Brazil's Prison Fire & Riot - 25 dead![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() & a consideration of the universality of prison issues. 25 prisoners have been reported killed in Brazil's latest prison unrest. They died in a fire which authorities say resulted from gang frictions in the Ponte Nova prison near Minas Gerais in the south west of the state, though other news sources claim the prisoners were in riot & had taken control of the prison at dawn. The prison built for 90 inmates (according to Globo Brazilian media & 70 according to Reuters) held 173 inmates. Many will know of the notoriety of the Brazilian penal system, recalling the Carandiru massacre in 1992 which led to military police killing 111 inmates in the prison of the same name. The current government which counts amongst its highest echelons individuals who served time in Brazilian prisons has been keen to convince onlookers that penal reform is a priority. Accordingly only last Monday the Federal government unveiled plans to build 160 new prisons as part of a wider strategy to stop gang violence. I've been awaiting an opportunity to raise the theme of penal reform, & this news offers both an opportunity to report on one of Brazil's most serious social ills as well as to cast an eye closer to home and appraise the efforts of the new Irish regime as much as new Irish opposition to properly deal with Ireland's penal institutional problems. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3The UN has been for sometime investigating the importation of the US Military
Industrial Complex into the Phillipines. The related link is :- http://www.indymedia.ie/article/81189
The Arroy regime in 2005 televised the Bagong prison massacre, which normalised the
murder of the poor and politcal dissenters for a primetime audience.
The Karpatan and the Filipino co-ops were covering the abuse and have fed into the
UN query. Berkley educated MS arroyo is still in power, despite acting against the moslem
enclaves within her borders and still it seems empowered by her devout Roman Catholicism.
http://cffsc.focusnow.org
The title of the 'author' is from a series of poems:-
http://www.leftcurve.org/LC30webpages/GlobalisingAbuGhr...b.htm
When mass-media begin, through their audience catchments to normalise vicious abuse on
behalf of the State against the individual- as happens in the suffering of the Iraqi people
we are on a slippery slope regarding what is televisual consumption.
http://www.leftcurve.org/LC30WebPages/GlobalizingAbuGhr...b.htm
The poems are by Stephen Hartnett.
http://www.newleftcurve.org.
issue number 30 has an essay on normalising the imported military industrial complex
during the Phillipine prison massacre.
headlines such - as prison guards walk out, must really rub the salt in the wound in the prison library. not too long ago the british prison service was reported to be considering painting the walls of her majesty's prisons pink to calm prisoners down. perhaps that was yet another thing which got up the screws noses.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uklatest/story/0,,-6882761,00....html
http://uk.reuters.com/article/UKNews1/idUKL296210020070...trike
http://news.monstersandcritics.com/uk/news/article_1349...lkout
when i wrote the article above i invited people to reflect on that aspect of the justice system which is held in the least regard, not only the men and women who endure retributive systems but also i hope the little reference to ireland's penal reform trust was caught.
just in case it wasn't - here it is again - http://iprt.ie/
whoever gets the labour job really should have opinions on that sort of stuff. oh yes. and be a lady too.