diff --git a/content/session/withouthomeincorona.md b/content/session/withouthomeincorona.md index fcf8b9d..f150061 100644 --- a/content/session/withouthomeincorona.md +++ b/content/session/withouthomeincorona.md @@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ The reasons behind all these episodes are different and have to do both with the **Source:** - [Le rivolte nelle carceri sono il frutto di crisi vecchie e nuove, L'Internazionale (ITA)](https://www.internazionale.it/notizie/giuseppe-rizzo/2020/03/11/rivolte-carcere-coronavirus) +In Brazil too, over one thousand prisoners escaped four prisons on Monday 16th March, after the day-release privileges were suspended and limitations were placed on visitors amid concerns about the coronavirus pandemic. + +**Source:** +[Hundreds of Brazilian Prisoners Escape After Prison Riot Over Cancelled Easter Exits Due to Coronavirus](https://www.newsweek.com/hundreds-brazilian-prisoners-escape-after-prison-riot-over-cancelled-easter-exits-due-coronavirus-1492649) + --- While similar restrictions are put in effect in other countries, many advocacy groups are asking for amnesties and the early release of prisoners serving time for minor offences, putting the case for a more comprehensive reform of the justice system on the international agenda, to move beyond jailing as the default mechanism to cope with crimes, in favour of [prison abolitionism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_abolition_movement#Abolitionist_views) and [reparative/resotrative justice](https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/issues/law/cjr/chap9.pdf) options.