Dandara Vick
Age 3423 Mar 2025
Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul (Brazil)
Suffocated
Dandara was suffocated by a male inmate in her cell at Instituto Penal de Campo Grande. She was serving a sentence for petty theft, reportedly in connection with a drug addiction.
The family of Dandara Vick, who was found dead inside the Maximum Security Prison, in Jardim Noroeste, in Campo Grande, this Sunday (23) are asking for justice and attention to be paid to the case.
Dandara's mother, in an interview during the wake, visibly shaken, says that there were mistakes on the part of the Agepen management: “whoever is in the discipline has to be alone, look what they did to my [daughter], I'm not the first mother who is crying”.
She also says that she was informed of Dandara's death by third parties: “I am a well-known woman, as they were always present during visits, I was informed by third parties of what had happened”, says the mother.
Dandara's sister points out that Dandara was paying for petty thefts to support her drug addiction and asks for justice. “My [sister] was accused of murder in 2019 and was acquitted, and we have evidence. Dandara was not a saint, but she was paying for petty thefts, since she was a user. What we want is justice”.
Her killer had previously killed another inmate.
The man who killed a [trans woman] inside a cell at the IPCG (Campo Grande Penal Institute) in the company of another inmate had already been involved in at least two other disputes inside prison units in MS, in one of which he committed another murder.
In August last year, he was charged with intentional bodily harm after assaulting another inmate at the Dourados prison in the company of three other inmates. The victim had a cut on his head and was covered in blood when he was rescued.
The perpetrators said that the man wanted to hit another inmate in the cell and was kicking the cell door, which is why they attacked him.
In 2020, he was accused of killing Valmir Pereira, 38, inside the Paranaíba Prison. He and another inmate admitted to the crime. They confessed, but disagreed on who was the mastermind.
