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Prisoners at the Carandiru Detention House, where 111 inmates died during a police crackdown, tell journalists that the incident was a 'massacre' and call for human rights groups to investigate conditions at the dangerously overcrowded jail, Brazil's larg — Prisoners at the Carandiru Detention House, where 111 inmates died during a police crackdown, tell journalists that the incident was a 'massacre' and call for human rights groups to investigate conditions at the dangerously overcrowded jail, Brazil's largest, on October 6, 1992.

© 1992 Reuters/Jamil Ismail