In Brazil, at least 55 prisoners were killed as fights broke out across four prisons in the northwestern state of Amazonas. Fifteen prisoners were found dead Sunday, and 40 on Monday, in what authorities say were gang-related riots. The deaths were caused by strangulation and stabbing. Leaders of the suspected gangs are being transferred to maximum-security prisons.
Brazil has the third-largest prison population in the world. According to a local human rights group, one of the prisons where riots broke out was housing more than twice its prisoner capacity. President Jair Bolsonaro, who campaigned on a law-and-order platform, has said he would “stuff prison cells with criminals.”