Title: Behind bars in Brazil
First published: 1998
Description: And Recommendations--An Overview of the Penal System--Overcrowding, Alternative Sanctions, and Prison Construction--Sao Paulo and Minas Gerais: The Police Lockup as a Prison--Physical Conditions--Medical, Legal, and Other Assistance--Prisoner-on-Prisoner Abuses--Abuses by Guards and Police--Prisoners' Contacts with the Outside World--Work and Other Activities--Women Prisoners
Subjects: Prisons, Human rights, Prisoners, Legal status, laws, Overcrowding
Places: Brazil
LC classification: HV9592 .M35 1998