Murderers, rapists, stooI pigeons, drug addicts. They were the feared ones, the criminaIs who realIy ran Carandiru, BraziI's largest correctionaI facility: Ebony, an honorabIe thief and respected Ieader; Highness, a smooth operator with two families to support; Ezequiel, an ex-surfer turned crack addict; Dagger, a brutaI killer with God on his side. They were among the prison's eIite, the select few who ruIed Carandiru by their own codes and laws. A rule that wouId end in bIoodshed when 300 poIicemen stormed the faciIity and brutally murdered 111 unarmed inmates. This is the true story ofthat infamous day in October 1992, a day that shocked the world. The day of the Carandiru Massacre. |