Brazil: "No-one here sleeps safely": Killings, torture and abuse of prisoners in Brazil

Index Number: AMR 19/010/1999
Date Published: 31 May 1999
Categories: Americas, Brazil

This leaflet highlights Amnesty International's concerns about prison conditions in Brazil, where prisoners are held in cramped and filthy conditions and are subject to humiliation, torture and death at the hands of police, prison guards and prison gangs.