Abstract:In the last decade, Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court has tried several cases that structurally affected Brazil’s prison system. The paradigmatic judgement is the declaration of an unconstitutional state of affairs in the face of the generalized and systemic violation of the fundamental rights of prisoners in 2015. The declaration triggered a variety of actions from different agencies and authorities to assess, intervene and call for accountability for the repeated inability to modify the conditions of prisons. T… Show more
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