31.   The inmates overpowered one guard and took his gun while using a restroom, then returned to the prison van and overpowered the other guard, Whorton said.

32.   The inmate overpowered the guard there and opened an exterior gate freeing the other six prisoners.

33.   The inmates overpowered the guards Monday night and are believed to have at least three guns.

34.   The inmates returned to the jail, overpowered guards and seized their weapons, killing three guards and a police officer.

35.   The inmates were said to have overpowered panic-stricken guards whose attention was divided between battling the fire and preventing the inmates from escaping.

36.   The uprising began Thursday morning, when inmates overpowered guards and set fire to mattresses.

37.   The takeover began Thursday when prisoners overpowered guards and seized weapons.

38.   The violence began after four prisoners, who had guns and knives stashed in their cells, overpowered three guards, the newspaper Jornal do Brasil reported.

39.   They overpowered a guard and escaped in her sport utility vehicle.

40.   They used a makeshift knife to overpower a guard and escape in her sport utility vehicle.