Prison Conditions Worsen in Brazil
(World News Brazil)

Expand Yard at the Casa de Detenção (Cadet), one of the facilities in the Pedrinhas prison complex. © 2015 Human Rights Watch In early 2015 I entered a humid, unsanitary cell with six cement bunks for 60 men who did not even have enough floor space to lie down. While visiting the prison, in the Brazilian state of Pernambuco, I saw cell keys in the hands of inmates chosen...