"Discovered?" Like no one knew they were there? How can they even say things like that with a straight face? It reminds me of Thailand, where every now and again you hear about a suicide jumper who had his hands bound behing him, and a bag over his head. Yeah, they call it suicide.

Candyman

@weak_pig:

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?

OTA. these TV's that you speak of come with tuners now. And some prisons give you CC TV channels.

Cordfucious

even if he got a plasma, theres no way in hell there'll be an available cable connection to hook up to... so how the heck does he watch tv?

weak_pig

@92BuickLeSabre: your probably right

With that much corruption in the jails, they might as well just have let him go. and say he escaped.

Hawkskater

They forgot to mention pizza delivery and escort services. Yes, this also happens there. Not long ago I also read that a prisoner organized a barbecue for high level guards and chiefs. He taped the own party and it ended up on the web.

jenheta

@Hawkskater: I'd guess once he got the cash and the guns, the rest was pretty straightforward.

92BuickLeSabre

Money, the root of all plasma teleys.

rickster434

wha wha wha what? How the fuck did he sneak a plasma and a fridge and gym equipment into his cell. He must be the worlds biggest man whore, because i dont think the average person could smuggle that much shit up there ass.

Hawkskater

It's helps to bend over for the guards too.

bms

"You'll never guess what I just found under his mattress- a refrigerator."

"throw him in the hole!"

kaneshadow

He lives good just like our gangsters do here. Bribes.

MONSTERGOC

@Candyman: Hey maybe thats the way he wanted to go.

@Valicious: got to love that toilet wine

Hawkskater

I heard some of the jails in Brazil are actually just enclosed towns of prisoners that have houses, economies, jobs etc. Maybe he lived there.

redkamel

They make toilet wine too.
by the way in ol' good days higher class sold their urine for it was most potent for them were consuming drugs that others could not get.

Valicious

@Candyman: Assisted suicide.

turbob5

@AndersonBMX: Mhm, that's why Brazil is not my fave. Move up to Colombia and strike it big pushing coke. Then you're all set.

Substance_D

corruption here in Brazil is everywhere...

they found 150 driver's licenses registered with the same fingerprint.

some politician "won" more than 200 times in the lottery (chances of hit 6 numbers in 60 is 1:50.000.000)

in my house there is no plasma tv. i only got a 29" crt tv this year. and some bastard in the jail are living with the money of the taxes I paid to the government when bought my 29". he don't have to work, don't have to pay anything but the bribes... and get a pair of .38s, R$ 280k, plasma, etc etc...

AndersonBMX

Pity him, the plasma was a visio

Sora57

Multiple G3 iPhones found too.

Notcynicalanymore

I don't even live this well!
I heard in Canadian prisons they have cappuccino machines and let certain inmates keep knives in their apartments...fucking maple loving jerks.

carmen

@weak_pig: Pron.

Gary_7vn

@Cordfucious: You scare me sometimes.

Simpsons-Movie-ruled

@Bokusatsu_Tenshi:
By law, inmates have the right to spend holidays with their family. Lots of escapees and inmates committing more crimes on holidays, as you can imagine.

some of them arrested few blocks of the penitentiary in action...

AndersonBMX

And this is old news here in Brazil.
I mean, it happened before.

The first time stuff like these was found out, happened in northern states were corruption is at it's worse.

Inmates could pay for deluxe cells, with all sorts of electronics:
[www.pernambuco.com]

Also, there's been a case where a cell had actually been reformed and enlarged all at the expense of some prisoner.

And finally, there's been reports of some prisons where some inmates could actually pay to leave the prison for the day and return at night.

Brazilian prisons are in shambles. The government does little to solve the problem, people working there are underpaid and several times threatened by inmates, and the most bizarre stuff will happen.

By law, inmates have the right to spend holidays with their family. Lots of escapees and inmates committing more crimes on holidays, as you can imagine.

It's a shame really. But the government doesn't have the moral to fix this stuff... they are too occupied with their own corruption schemes.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

@carmen: cappuccino machines are nothing... Here in the US they "offer" you tossed salad after lights out...

sfokevin

lol its funny how u some of u guys don't see the light am Brasilian and trust me the jails are not good well ive been inside the jails here in the USA and the prisoner's have it made but if u wore to watch Globo (brasillian channel) they actually show his prison cell and it looked like the refugee camp from Darfur

l337virus

You would have thought with such valuables he would have installed a burglar alarm...

sfokevin

@videoCWK: The question is not "how", it is "where". The answer is: you do not want to know.

itchytooth

How did he hide a plasma TV?

videoCWK

@CaptCaveman: My experience with prison is limited to a night spent in the drunk tank after a kegger...but I'm pretty sure you don't have to look too far for some action in prison. Usually it finds you when you're taking a shower.

jayhawk11

@itchytooth: Maybe you flip a switch and everything just comes out of the walls and the floor...
There just seemed to be one thing missing from the list... Some companionship. Though I'm sure he must have been leasing that on a as needed basis.

CaptCaveman

@shamoononon: why did I italicize that? I do not know.

shamoononon

Alright, an opportunity to say so they just raised my rent to 2k, child care is 1k, gas monthly $500, tax paid: 30+%... somebody beat somebody up for me while i find a way to get arrested.

shamoononon

Reminds me of Pablo Escobar's "prison" in Columbia when he turned himself into the government. And by prison, I mean $5 million dollar mansion that had a fence around it.

ShabazOSU

Have you ever seen the show Prison Break? Specifically season 3?

Ok, Sona was created inspired by Carandiru Pentientiary, which is a Brazilian Penitentiary.

felipekk

@sfokevin: Now thats ironic!!!

kevman90

how many inches did the TV have and how exactly did that escape detection? Well, let alone the fridge and the gym equipment.

yogibimbi

As a brazilian i think this is a normal situation in brazilian prisions. If you are rich, you can easily bypass almost all laws. Inside prisions too. If you have academic degree, you get privileges as exclusive cell with much features. Corrupt judges, polices and polictians NEVER gone arrested!! sorry my english!!

jacktorres

gotta love your country ...

vinchbr

sadly, the surrounding slums of the big cities are the real prisons - ask Brian - who has just driven past them.

fly boy

Obviously, the TV never escaped detection in the first place and the prison staff was clearly on the take the whole time. The "discovery" was probably made by law enforcement not affiliated with the prison itself.

I remember touring Alcatraz back in the early 90's. The tour guide said that Al Capone was transferred there after it was discovered that the cell in his previous prison had been expanded to encompass two cells and that the whole thing had been carpeted for him.

If the criminal is rich and powerful enough, and if the warden and staff are corrupt, escaping detection is not a consideration.

not2techy

Yeah, I'd rather stay the hell away from them myself...

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[english.people.com.cn]

Talk about scary conditions...

fuchikoma