Inmates threw rocks at each other and set up barriers yesterday inside a Brazilian penitentiary where 26 prisoners were recently killed in confrontations.
Live images on Globo television showed hundreds of prisoners in the yard of Alcacuz Penitentiary outside the northeast city of Natal.
Inmates appeared to be separating themselves into two groups with makeshift barriers of pieces of wood, mattresses and other material. Injured prisoners were seen being carried off.
No prison guards could be seen. “We need help immediately,” Robinson Faria, the governor of the state of Rio Grande do Norte, told CBN radio. Faria said he had asked President Michel Temer to immediately dispatch troops from the Armed Forces.
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