Brazilian prosecutors charged 213 prisoners Friday with involvement in the murder of 56 other inmates on Jan. 1 at a prison in Manaus, the second worst massacre in Brazilian history.

The 213 prisoners at the Anisio Jobim penitentiary in Amazonas were charged with the murder of six people, the torture and destruction of bodies of 26 more, and others.

Prosecutors sent to the court a 110-page document, describing the facts of "extreme barbarity, with scenes of horror and perversity that cannot remain unpunished."

The killing happened on the first day of 2017, after a rebellion at the prison lasted over 17 hours. Several of the prisoners were dismembered and burned.

The riot was sparked by the internal fight of two rival criminal gangs fighting for control of drug trafficking in the region.

It then spread to other Brazilian prisons, plunging it into a crisis that lasted for months, and leaving over 100 dead, hundreds injured and causing dozens of riots.

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