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| Brazil confronts prison gang violence |
| By The Washington Post |
| Published: 08/10/2006 |
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SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - Some consequences of the violence ordered by a powerful prison gang this week are starkly obvious: broken glass around several government buildings downtown, the twisted metal of crippled ATMs, smoldering carcasses of public buses in the suburbs. But the invisible effects are equally perceptible to the people here, changes that Ricardo Ferreira feels when he slips into a navy blue jacket and tie. The private attorney now feels marked when he wears a suit, he said, someone who could be easily mistaken for the type of government official the gang's members outside the prisons are targeting in an ongoing battle for control of a deeply troubled penal system...Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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