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Brazil’s World Cup stadium to process prisoners

A stadium being built for Brazil’s World Cup could become a prisoner processing system – if one local judge gets his way.

There are worries the stadium, being built in Manaus – on the doorstep of the Amazon jungle, could become a white elephant and stand idle after next year’s tournament.

But Judge Sabino Marques has proposed an alternative idea.

“He would, perhaps, suggest to the government of the state of Amazonas that the stadium be used as a processing centre for prisoners after the World Cup,” said a court spokesman, quoting Marques.

Read more at Sky News.