Brazil’s typical prisoner: male, young, black, and poorly educated

By TBR Newsroom

The National Penitentiary Department, an institution under the Ministry of Justice, has published a new report concerning Brazil’s prisoner population. The data shows that the typical prisoner in Brazil are males under 30 years old, black, and uneducated. In 2016, there were at least 372 deaths inside the penitentiary system.

That number should go up in 2017, over 100...