Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Disturbing photos from Inside Brazil’s toughest jails where inmates sell crack cocaine, charge taxes, gang rape, murder rivals and even have their own keys

Bloody: Pernambuco prisons are the worst-guarded in Brazil and two people died (pictured) during a two-day riot at the Curado prison complex this MayDestitiute: Inmates who do not have money to buy a 'barraco' - or private bunker - sleep in a corridor in the Curado prison complex in Recife and their belongings hang from the walls
You dont wanna go down there...

Jails in Brazil's Pernambuco state are lawless dens of iniquity being run by inmates who sell crack cocaine to prisoners and murder anyone who owes them money, an investigation has revealed,  37 prisoners are to share a tiny cell and The most dangerous ones are called 'chaveiros' - or 'keyholders' - control over their cell block for them to 'maintain order'. see photos after the cut..

The authorities give the job to convicted murderers, rapists and drug dealers because they 'command respect from fellow inmates', a jailbird told charity Human Rights Watch (HRW), who reported on the four Pernambuco prisons, where there is one guard for 31 inmates.

It found chaveiros-run jails are hell holes where disease is rife, vulnerable ones are gang raped and relatives outside are blackmailed into paying off inmates' drug debts.


Overcrowded: 37 prisoners share a tiny cell in PJALLB prison in Recife (pictured), Pernambuco, while the 'chaveiros' - the inmates chosen to rule over them - live in spacious rooms with TVs and bathrooms

Drug lords: The chaveiros - or keyholders - order their in-house militias to hurt or kill anyone who owes them money (pictured, an inmate who was killed in a two-day Recife prison riot)
Violence: A prisoner in the Curado prison complex in Recife, Pernambuco, holds a bullet he claims was fired by the chaveiros' henchmen in the cell where he was being held


Drug lords: These men are known as keyholders (pictured, the keyholder of Pavilion 7 in PJALLB prison) because they literally hold the keys to prison blocks where they are tasked with 'maintaining order'
Turmoil: The chaveiros are tasked with maintaining order inside the prisons but they turn a blind eye to violence, rape and the sick (picture, a man whose rash went untreated for three years)
Bribed: Prisoners and their relatives on the outside pay up to £330 to chaveiros so they can sleep in cement bunkers (pictured, on the walls of the room) which offer some respite from the heat
Desperate: Inmates have to collect water for drinking, washing, showering, and flushing toilets from taps in the yards that have running water only three times a day for half an hour each
Cramped: In the north-east state of Pernambuco, almost 32,000 inmates are housed in prisons (pictured, the dining room of the PAISJ prison in Itamaraca) with capacity for just 10,500 
Enslaved: While most prisoners live in abject misery, the chaveiros have their own private cells and even employ inmates as personal servants, known as 'chegados' (right), to do their washing
Upgrade: A 'barraco' made out of sheets within a cell in the PAMFA prison within the Curado prison complex in Recife
Squalid: Garbage builds up in one of Pernambuco's prisons which are rife with disease due to unsanitary conditions
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