Ring the Alarm: Brazil's Prison System in Serious Trouble

While many have reported on Brazil's devastating prison conditions, a startling fact is that overcrowding, a main contributor to prison violence, is not being tackled head-on. Brazil's incarceration rate is alarming with as many as 3,000 new prisoners each month.

Even more shocking is that almost 50 percent of those sitting in Brazilian prisons have never been tried and some will wait for years to see a judge.

Source: The Huffington Post

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