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BRAZIL’S JUSTICE MINISTER said local authorities in the Amazon region knew about the risk of a mass escape from two prisons where 184 inmates fled amid a deadly riot.
As police were engaged a huge manhunt for 126 escaped convicts still at large, Justice Minister Alexandre de Moraes suggested there may be more than meets the eye to the headline-grabbing prison riot.
“There was an escape plan already in place. So we need to investigate whether in reality all the unrest and the deaths happened so that (drug gang) leaders could escape,” he said at a press conference in Brasilia.
Amazonas state officials say fighting between rival gangs triggered the riot, which lasted 17 hours and ended Monday morning with 56 inmates dead, many of them beheaded.
But the justice minister indicated the gory violence may also have been a smokescreen for gang leaders to escape.
Escape
The Amazonas state government had reinforced security at the Anisio Jobim Penitentiary Complex after being informed of a possible escape, he said.
Local officials did not tell federal authorities about the risk, he added.
A network of 16 tunnels was discovered at the prison in the wake of the riot, according to state public security secretary Sergio Fontes.
Officials say 112 inmates escaped through them. Another 72 escaped from the nearby Antonio Trindade Penal Institute.
Investigators meanwhile continued working to identify the bodies of inmates killed in the riot. They warn it could take weeks because many were badly mutilated.
As of Tuesday evening, 36 had been identified. Half the victims were beheaded, according to forensic investigators. Others were burned or dismembered.
The riot was the deadliest to hit Brazil’s chronically overcrowded jails since police killed 111 inmates in a crackdown on an uprising at the Carandiru prison in Sao Paulo in 1992.
Amazonas authorities blame the riot on fighting between the powerful local gang Family of the North (FDN) and rivals from the First Capital Command (PCC), one of Brazil’s largest gangs.
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As some one who has tried to implement something like it will be interesting to see how he does it . I managed to get it some facial recognition working with a raspberry pi behind a two wave mirror which has a screen behind it in top corner. If it recognize me it displays my calendar while not displaying to others( the rest of the mirror looks like a mirror). Although it is very dependent on the quality of lighting in the room which will be interesting to see how Zuckenberg deals that that. (Seems christmas lights are very useful for me.) As for voice recognition the tricky thing is getting to start listening to you, and sound quality at a distance.
Also I tried building a voice activated recipe display, seems the only thing the google speech recognition API can understand of a Tipperary accent is Baked Alaska.
I’m still waiting for the cheque in the post he was sending out to me. It said it on Facebook so I presume that’s where he got my address?
Its probably built already.
And if there’s one thing zuckerberg is good at, it’s developing other people’s ideas.
Wonder if it will as much harm as Facebook has…
Starts out as Jarvis ends up like Proteus out of Demon Seed.
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