By Drauzio Varella
The Carandiru residence of Detention, within the teeming urban of São Paulo, used to be the biggest and such a lot crowded legal in Latin the US. referred to as the 'Old House', it was once additionally hugely strange within the manner it used to be ruled. Closed to the skin international, or even principally to the wardens, it used to be run virtually fullyyt through the inmates themselves, who created a different society entire with politics, hierarchies and a method of justice.
In 1989, on the top of the AIDS epidemic in Brazil, with just a handful of physicians trying to deal with an inmate inhabitants of over 7,000, the scientific scenario at Carandiru was once dire. A urban health practitioner, Drauzio Varella, volunteered his time at Carandiru over the process 13 years, as a way to wrestle the rampant sickness. As he received the inmates' belief he used to be given entry to their society, the place he was once crushed by means of the profound humanity and freedom of spirit proven by means of those males, regardless of their negative crimes and the inhuman stipulations within which they...
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A big black man woke up, jumped out of bed and came to the door brandishing a knife (he took it out so quickly that it could only have been hidden under his pillow). Until he had grasped what was going on, he just stood there, utterly still, with terror in his eyes and the knife pointing at the door. He probably didn’t trust that the door bar was firm enough. In the middle of the door was a small window, covered inside with a curtain, through which deliveries were made and the daily head counts – a strict prison ritual – were conducted.
The odd mealtime was again justified by the head count, which had to take place at five o’clock in the afternoon, and made re-cooking meals and the need for ‘jumbos’ important: ‘Jumbos are the bags our families bring us when they visit, or leave with the doormen on weekdays. ’ At five o’clock, everyone would return to their floors and the cages were locked, except those of the men whose activities justified their being out of them, such as cleaners and nurses, for example.
The objective of this book is not to speak out against an antiquated penal system, to offer solutions for crime in Brazil or to defend human rights. As in the films of old, I seek to walk among the characters who inhabited the prison: thieves, swindlers, smugglers, rapists, murderers and the handful of unarmed warders who watched over them. The narrative is interrupted by the characters themselves so that readers may appreciate their stories first-hand. For ethical reasons, the incidents described didn’t always happen to the characters to whom they have been attributed.
