English Abstract: Brazilian prisons are notoriously under-resourced, but at the same time relatively orderly places. In circumstances of material deprivation and acute staff shortage, inmates and officers are left to cobble together customary orders in which prisoners are required to take on the role of janitors, in some prisons even guards. Meanwhile, prison wings are often left in the hands of inmate hierarchies, sometimes managed by prison authorities, but more often left to develop organically, sometimes under the influence of gangs. Less well known are over 30 NGO administered, faith-based prisons that have opened over the past forty years, mostly in the state of Minas Gerais. These prisons take state abandonment, inmate collaboration ...
Since some years ago, the penitentiany systen of Rio de Janeiro is going through the nuest sendus ad...
The prison system in Brazil is crowded with problems. There is a shortage of resources that violate ...
Study of informal organizations in prisons in Latin America focuses on the exercise of control over ...
The article discusses the initiatives taken in the prison system in São Paulo in order to curb the a...
YesThis chapter examines an innovative experience in prison management pioneered in the 1990s in São...
Este estudo objetiva refletir, a partir das perspectivas da Sociologia da Prisão e da Sociologia da ...
The Brazilian prison system is in a dire situation. Prisons are places where there is a lot of tortu...
Prisons in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro are run not so much by prison guards as by inmates. In circu...
This text presents an alternative method of imprisonment called Association of Protection and Assist...
Brazil is criticised for breaching international norms on the treatment of prisoners. Its common pri...
Brazil is marked by several socioeconomic inequalities that yield in countless repercussions, such a...
The failure of the prison system has been aimed as one of the largest problems of the Brazilian repr...
A dinâmica organizacional das prisões é usualmente caracterizada pela presença de guardas que, junta...
The Paulo Sarasate Penal Institute (IPPS) in Ceará served as political prison during the civil-mili...
A Cadeia Pública de Bragança Paulista (São Paulo) passou a ser administrada, desde primeiro de janei...
Since some years ago, the penitentiany systen of Rio de Janeiro is going through the nuest sendus ad...
The prison system in Brazil is crowded with problems. There is a shortage of resources that violate ...
Study of informal organizations in prisons in Latin America focuses on the exercise of control over ...
The article discusses the initiatives taken in the prison system in São Paulo in order to curb the a...
YesThis chapter examines an innovative experience in prison management pioneered in the 1990s in São...
Este estudo objetiva refletir, a partir das perspectivas da Sociologia da Prisão e da Sociologia da ...
The Brazilian prison system is in a dire situation. Prisons are places where there is a lot of tortu...
Prisons in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro are run not so much by prison guards as by inmates. In circu...
This text presents an alternative method of imprisonment called Association of Protection and Assist...
Brazil is criticised for breaching international norms on the treatment of prisoners. Its common pri...
Brazil is marked by several socioeconomic inequalities that yield in countless repercussions, such a...
The failure of the prison system has been aimed as one of the largest problems of the Brazilian repr...
A dinâmica organizacional das prisões é usualmente caracterizada pela presença de guardas que, junta...
The Paulo Sarasate Penal Institute (IPPS) in Ceará served as political prison during the civil-mili...
A Cadeia Pública de Bragança Paulista (São Paulo) passou a ser administrada, desde primeiro de janei...
Since some years ago, the penitentiany systen of Rio de Janeiro is going through the nuest sendus ad...
The prison system in Brazil is crowded with problems. There is a shortage of resources that violate ...
Study of informal organizations in prisons in Latin America focuses on the exercise of control over ...