Brazilian authorities continuously fail to comply with
international norms on minimal conditions of incarceration.
Brazil's prison population has risen ten-fold since the country's
return to democracy in the 1980s. Its prisons typically operate at
double official capacity and with 100 prisoners for each guard on
duty. At the same time, however, the average Brazilian prison is
not as disorderly or its staff-inmate relations so conflictual as
our established theories on prison life might predict. This
monograph explores the means by which Brazilian prisons function in
the absence of guards. More specifically, the means by which prison
security and inmate discipline is negotiated between prison
managers, gangs and the wider inmate body. While fragile and
varied, this historical tradition of co-produced governance has for
decades kept most prisons in better order and enabled most
prisoners to better survive.
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