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Murderers, rapists, pigeon stools, drug addicts. They were the feared ones, the criminals who really ra Carandiru, Brazil's largest correctional facility. Ebony, Highness, Ezequiel, and Dagger were among the prison's elite, the select few who ruled Carandiru by their own codes and laws. A rule that would end in bloodshed when 300 policemen stormed the facility and brutally murdered 111 unarmed inmates. This is the story of that infamous day in October 1992, a day that shocked the world.

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