“Real Dungeons”
 Juvenile Detention in the State of Rio de Janeiro

Maps

I. Summary

II. Recommendations

Pretrial Detention

Disciplinary Practices

Complaint Mechanisms and Monitoring

Prosecutorial Oversight

Public Defenders

Conditions of Confinement

Health and Hygiene

Education and Vocational Training

Drug Gangs

Girls in Detention

Data Collection

Federal Funding

III. The Juvenile Justice System in Rio de Janeiro

The Statute of the Child and the Adolescent

Legal Representation

Juvenile Detention in Rio de Janeiro

Efforts to Reduce the Age of Criminal Responsibility

IV. Mistreatment by Guards

Beatings by Guards

Abusive Disciplinary Practices

Impunity

V. “Factionalization” and Violence Among Youths

Inter-Gang Violence

Segregation by Drug Faction

VI. Conditions of Detention

Overcrowding

Recreation, Exercise, and Idleness

Contact with the Outside World

Food

VII. Hygiene and Health Care

Bedding and Clothing

Personal Hygiene and Access to Water

The Outbreak of Scabies

The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health

VIII. Education

Access to Schooling

Vocational Training

The Right to Education

   Appendix A: Detention Centers Visited for this Report

Centro de Atendimento Intensivo-Belford Roxo (CAI-Baixada)

Educandário Santo Expedito

Educandário Santos Dumont

Escola JoÃo Luiz Alves

Instituto Padre Severino

   Appendix B: Letter to Governor of Rio de Janeiro

   Acknowledgments

Vol. 16, No. 7(B)   December 2004

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