1993 in South Palo, Brazil.

It starts like so many things do in this country with a soccer game.

A tournament, really, in Tabante prison.

It's the kind of place the authorities send the worst of the worst inmates, which is no small feat in Brazil, a country with a notoriously brutal and violent and just straight up horrific prison system.

Even now, in 2022, every few months, you left stories of dozens of prisoners

killed in random riots or gang wars, and back then there's widespread torture, execution,

suicide, just all that sort of stuff.

Less than a year before the soccer tournament in October 1992, one of the most horrific

events to ever take place in the prison system there happens,

the Karandiro massacre. Karandiro is also one of the worst prisons in Brazil,

just insanely overcrowded with terrible conditions, knives everywhere, and it's actually inside the city of

South Apollo.

Right?

It's this booming city of business, and right smack inside is a prison with 7,000 prisoners overseen by only 100 guards, which means of

course the prisoners pretty much run it. This particular day, the inmates

riot, not exactly an infrequent occurrence, but the military is called to put it down,

and they do it viciously and excessively.

111 prisoners are killed by the military police after they stormed the prison.

Many are found to have been executed.

An investigation show that only something like 500 shells are found to have been used,

which means they were just lining people up and shooting them in the head.

This shocks the country of Brazil and also sends a pretty brutal message to the inmates of

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