Prison Massacre: 25 Police Officers Jailed

Twenty five police officers have each been sentenced to 624 years in jail for their role in Brazil's infamous Carandiru prison massacre.

A total of 111 prisoners were killed and 87 injured when police began shooting at random during a riot at the Sao Paulo jail in 1992.

The officers were found guilty of killing 52 prisoners after a week-long trial.

The verdicts were the second of four tranches of a trial involving different floors of the prison.

Twenty three officers were jailed for life in the first stage in April after more than two decades of legal delays.

They were each sentenced to 153 years in prison after being found guilty of killing 13 inmates.

Prosecutors argue that the prisoners were executed, while the defence claims the officers were acting in self-defence.

Human rights groups point out that no officers were injured in the violence.

A woman walks past grafitti outside the jail

The only person previously tried for the massacre was the police chief in charge of the operation, Colonel Ubiratan Guimaraes, who was sentenced to 632 years prison in 2001.

Guimaraes later appealed the sentence and was freed. He was found shot dead in his Sao Paulo apartment in 2006.

The prison was closed in 2002 after a series of riots across Sao Paulo, and was later demolished.

At the time of the massacre, Carandiru had 8,000 inmates and was the largest prison in Latin America.

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