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<text id=89TT0494>
<title>
Feb. 20, 1989: World Notes:Brazil
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
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</history>
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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WORLD, Page 49
World Notes
BRAZIL
Suffocation in Sao Paulo
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<p> Outside, carnival celebrations were reaching their climax.
But inside a Sao Paulo municipal lockup, policemen were
exacting savage revenge for a failed escape attempt. They
stripped naked 51 prisoners, allegedly beat them, then crushed
them into an unventilated 5-ft. by 10-ft. cell. Whether the
prisoners were locked in for 70 minutes or four hours remains
a matter of dispute. What is not is that when the door was
opened, nine were dead of suffocation and another nine died
shortly after being rushed to the hospital.
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<p> That barbaric incident only spotlighted Brazil's long
history of police brutality. It is caused in part by a
tradition of contempt toward offenders, and is compounded by a
growing crime rate that has frightened many well-off Brazilians
into indifference toward conditions in the country's
overcrowded prisons. According to local records, 112 criminal
suspects have died in police custody since 1982.
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