Carandiru Penitentiary, also known as Casa de Detencao was a penal facility situated in São Paulo, Brazil.
It was designed and built by Samuel das Neves in 1920 and at the time, it was considered to be the 'ideal' prison in Brazil, meeting the new demands of the 1890 Brazilian criminal code perfectly.
Carandiru was opened in 1956, and quickly received an influx of convicts. The population continued to rise,and at its peak, the prison was holding up to 8,000 inmates.
The Carandiru Massacre took place on 2nd October 1992, when the military police stormed the building following reports of a prison riot. During the riot, the police made very little effort to negotiate with the unruly prisoners, who could no longer tolerate the dire conditions in which they were forced to live.
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