Brazilian prisoners were treated as animals in prison, and the prison environment stayed in the ＂Middle Ages＂.

　　CCTV News:On August 3, local time, in Castillo prison in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the prison guards detained a woman who was about to leave after visiting the prison, and had doubts about her identity, so the prison guards conducted further investigations on "her". The prison guards checked the relevant videos and quickly spread all over the network, which became a hot search in Brazil.

　　It turned out that this "woman" was none other than Cravino da Silva, a 42-year-old gangster detained in this prison. Nine years ago, he was sentenced to 73 years and 10 months in prison for drug trafficking. On August 3, da Silva’s 19-year-old daughter visited him in prison. Taking this opportunity, da Silva tried to implement her own escape plan: disguised as her daughter with a silicone face mask, wig, tight jeans and pink shirt prepared in advance, in an attempt to get out of prison.

　　But when he left, he was too nervous and was finally seen by the prison guards.

　　The drug Lord died in the holding cell three days after he failed to escape from prison.

　　Brazilian police said that six years ago, da Silva tried to escape through the prison sewer, but was finally found by prison guards and was arrested again and held since then. This time, the "escape plan of disguised as a woman" carefully planned by him failed again, and then da Silva was transferred to the highest-level prison room. However, three days after he was transferred to the new cell, last Tuesday, the prison guards found him dead in the cell. Initial indications showed that he committed suicide, and the police have also launched an investigation into his death.

　　Gangs are fighting each other, and there’s a lot of fighting in prison

　　Da Silva, nicknamed "Shorty", is the leader of Red Command, one of the largest criminal groups in Brazil, which is based in Rio de Janeiro and controls drug smuggling in most parts of Rio. In recent years, the two largest gangs in Brazil, the "First Capital Command" and the "Red Command" headquartered in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, often compete for the drug market, grab territory, and intend to bloodbath their opponents. Countless members of both parties have been arrested in prison.

　　In the documentary "The Worst Prison in the World" broadcast in 2018, the reporter visited a Brazilian prison and learned more about their situation in prison.

　　There was an agreement between "First Capital Command" and "Red Command" that the "First Capital Command" required the other party to act according to their own rules in prison, but in 2016, the relationship between the two sides broke down, and since then, the two factions have been fighting in prison.

　　The number of prisoners in anti-drug prisons has soared.

　　Although there is no more inside information about the death of Darcy Waal, a person familiar with the matter told the British newspaper The Guardian that it was related to the chaotic internal management of the prison. In recent years, the Brazilian government has stepped up its crackdown on violence and drug-related crimes, and the number of prisoners in prisons has soared. As the fifth largest country in the world, Brazil has a population of 209 million, but the number of prisoners ranks third in the world.

　　According to Reuters, in the past 30 years, the number of prisoners serving sentences in Brazilian prisons has increased eightfold, reaching a total of about 750,000, while the national prison capacity in Brazil is only over 400,000.

　　The man named Emerson Ferreira is 29 years old. Five years ago, because he was poor, he began to deal drugs. He was arrested by the police for possessing half a kilogram of marijuana and spent five years in prison. After getting out of prison, Ferreira began to work hard because he didn’t want to go back to that violent place.

　　Emerson FerreiraIn prison, a group of people can only move in a very small cell, which is prone to violence. When you are in prison, you will feel like an animal, and you have never thought about changing the status quo. The whole legal punishment system should ensure that prisoners can reintegrate into society and become a part of society again. But prisoners are treated like animals in prison, and once they get out of prison, they will become more violent. "

　　Management chaos, prison violence happens from time to time.

　　The harsh environment, overcrowding and lack of investment and construction in education and vocational training make Brazilian prisons more like recruitment places for criminal gangs than places for rehabilitation. In addition, prison guards are underpaid and understaffed, and violent incidents occur from time to time in Brazilian prisons, and hundreds of people die every year due to violent conflicts between gangs.

　　In May this year, a two-day riot took place in four prisons in Brazilian state of Amazon, resulting in 55 deaths. The riot was caused by a conflict between two gangs.

　　The riot started in a prison in Manaus, and it happened on the morning of May 26th during the visit of relatives. Although the security forces arrived at the scene within three minutes of the incident and quelled the riot within 45 minutes. But in the end, 15 prisoners died in the riots. They were all stabbed by sharpened toothbrushes and then strangled.

　　The news seems to have quickly spread to several other prisons nearby. The next day, another 40 prisoners’ bodies were found in four prisons in the area, including four bodies from the prison where the riots occurred the day before.

　　In July, a five-hour riot occurred in a prison in Pará, northern Brazil, during which someone set fire and the fire spread rapidly. The authorities immediately dispatched police to stop it, and two of the prison guards were once taken hostage, but were later released.

　　Later, after investigation, it was found that the fuse of the incident was also because a gang member mixed into the area of another gang in the prison, which led to conflicts between the two sides. A total of 57 prisoners were killed in the riot, 16 of them were beheaded in the conflict, and the remaining 41 were suffocated by smoke.

　　Ivan de, chairman of the local human rights CommitteeWhat can be revealed to you now is that this is a struggle between rival gangs in the prison. Because so far, prisoners have not made any demands to the government, and the only requirement is to ensure their safety. "

　　Cardoso, the former Minister of Justice of Brazil, once described the prison environment in Brazil as "medieval", and he would rather die than spend a day in prison.

　　In response to the prison riots in recent months, the Brazilian authorities have taken a series of emergency measures: strengthening military security near high-risk prisons; And increase prisons in various States, and plan to build an additional 20,000 cells by the end of this year.