The Huffington Post
BRAZIL — About 50 inmates escaped Fundacao Casa facility after a massive riot broke out at the Sao Paolo youth detention center Monday.
Helicopter cameras captured much of the chaos in the Brazilian prison, which included inmates setting their mattresses aflame and leaping over the building’s walls, as the video above shows.
About 29 staff members were held hostage during the uprising, and a battered prison facility director was taken to the hospital in critical condition, according to APTN. Police have been scouring the surrounding residential areas for the escaped detainees.
In many countries, such an uprising might be an anomaly, but in Brazil, the recent incident is merely another chapter in a saga of prison violence. A riot in 2012 saw 470 armed inmates of the Advogado Antonio Jacinto Filho prison take about 130 people hostage. And earlier this month, 25 Brazilian police officers were found guilty of killing 52 prison inmates during a Sao Paolo prisoner riot in 1992.
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