Brazil has struggled to contain prison violence for decades. A riot at the Altamira prison in Pará state on July 29, which left at least 62 inmates dead, revealed just how much work still needs to be done.
Prison Populism finds that Latin America will likely sustain the world´s highest proportion of inmates for the foreseeable future.
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