Mexican comedian brings stand-up to female prisoners. The Uruguayan prison where inmates set up shop. Brazil prison riots: What's the cause? On the first day in her new cell, Tatiane Correia de Lima did not recognise herself.
The South American country has the world's fourth largest prison population and its jails regularly come under the spotlight for their poor conditions, with chronic overcrowding and gang violence provoking deadly riots. What's behind Brazil's prison riots? Unlike in the mainstream system, "which steals your femininity" as Lima puts it, at the Apac jail she is allowed to wear her own clothes and have a mirror, make-up and hair dye. But the difference between the regimes is far more than skin-deep.
No guards. The Apac system has been gaining growing recognition as a safer, cheaper and more humane answer to the country's prison crisis. All Apac prisoners must have passed through the mainstream system and must show remorse and be willing to follow the strict regime of work and study which is part of the system's philosophy. There are no guards or weapons and visitors are greeted by an inmate who unlocks the main door to the small women's jail. The inmate leads the way to the "conjugal suite", a brightly decorated room with a double bed where women are allowed to spend private time with partners visiting from outside the jail.
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Apac prisons were set up by a group of Catholics in and are now co-ordinated and supported by the Italian non-governmental organisation AVSI Foundation and the Brazilian Fraternity of Assistance to Convicts. Inmates are known as recuperandos recovering people , reflecting the Apac focus on restorative justice and rehabilitation. They must study and work, sometimes in collaboration with the local community. If they do not - or if they try to abscond - they risk being returned to the mainstream system.
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