Editing Human rights in Brazil (section)

==Prisoner violence==
{{Main|Carandiru massacre|Candelária massacre}}

The Brazilian prison system has been considered insolvent for a long time.{{Citation needed|date=October 2024}} Prisons are overcrowded and unhealthy, and [[prison rape]] is not uncommon. There are over 400,000 inmates in the system. Beatings, torture and killings by prison guards occur throughout the system. Children are abused in the juvenile justice system.<ref name=AI>{{cite web |url=http://thereport.amnesty.org/en/regions/americas/brazil |title=Amnesty International report on Brazil |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090610063340/http://thereport.amnesty.org/en/regions/americas/brazil |archive-date=2009-06-10}}</ref> According to the Ministry of Justice, 13,489 teenagers are in detention. [[Prison overcrowding in Brazil|Prison overcrowding]] results in a prominent occurrence of prison violence and murder as well as frequent revolts and escapes. To deal with these problems, prison administrations often divide prison populations according to gang affiliation. According to Global Justice, there have been claims of gang affiliation being assigned. Living space, food, and human cleanliness conditions are inhumane and [[bribery]] for privileges and transfers is rampant. In December 2007, a case of [[prison rape|prison]] [[gang rape]] in [[Pará]] brought media attention to the condition of human rights in the Brazil prison system.<ref>{{cite news|first=Alexei |last=Barrionuevo |title=Rape of Girl, 15, Exposes Abuses in Brazil Prison System |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/12/world/americas/12brazil.html?ref=americas |work=The New York Times |date=December 12, 2007 |access-date=December 13, 2007 }}</ref> Other cases, like of the beating of two young suspects by two military police officers from the 4th Battalion in the city of [[Picos]], [[Piauí]], have also made the headlines.<ref name=AI/>

Prison conditions throughout the country often range from poor to extremely harsh and life-threatening. Abuse by prison guards, poor medical care, and severe overcrowding occurred at many facilities. Prison officials often resorted to brutal treatment of prisoners, including torture, harsh or dangerous working conditions, official negligence, poor sanitary conditions, abuse and mistreatment by guards, and a lack of medical care led to a number of deaths in prisons. Poor working conditions and low pay for prison guards encouraged widespread corruption. Prisoners who committed petty crimes were held with murderers. According to the National Penitentiary Department, in June there were 392,279 prisoners incarcerated, 40 percent more than the system's design capacity, and the number increased approximately 3,000 per month. During the year 135 prisoners were involved in riots from January to June in federal prisons. There were several official complaints of overcrowding in Goiás, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, and Minas Gerais states.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/wha/119150.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090226174902/http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2008/wha/119150.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 26, 2009 |title=The situation of Brazilian prisons and human rights |publisher=State.gov |date=February 25, 2009 |access-date=October 21, 2010}}</ref>