Temer: Brazil Government to Take Larger Role in Security After Prison Massacre

Brazil's President Michel Temer said on Thursday there was confusion about the role government forces should have played during the riot at a privately-run prison this week that ended with 56 inmates killed by fellow prisoners. Temer, speaking for the first time about Brazil's bloodiest prison massacre in more than two decades, said that state governments should seek reinforcement from federal forces in such situations but at no time was the federal government asked for...

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