The 2022 yearbook of the Brazilian Forum on Public Security registered 442,033 black people incarcerated in the country—68.2% of the total prison population.
The torture practice was perpetrated and disseminated for years by agents from a federal task force in a number of states in the North and Northeast.
In 2018, the Inter-American Court stipulated that Brazil should make up for the degrading conditions at the complex by reworking the calculation of inmates’ jail time.
Brazil's Senator Aécio Neves has suggested that President Michel Temer adopt public-private partnerships (PPP) to run its prisons as part of the solution to Brazil's prison crisis.
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