Lockdown: Inside Brazil's Most Dangerous Prison by Drauzio Varella

Lockdown: Inside Brazil's Most Dangerous Prison

Drauzio Varella

368 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional reflective slow-paced
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One doctor's account of 10 years spent treating inmates in the Casa de Detenção, Brazil's largest and harshest prison.The Carandiru House of Detention, in the teeming city of São Paulo, was the largest and most crowded prison in Latin America. Kno...

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