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    In Brazil’s prisons, inequality isn’t just a condition. It’s the law.

    Aug 27, 2020 5 minutes
    Flavia Pinheiro Froes, a Brazilian lawyer with a reputation for defending some of the country’s most notorious drug traffickers, distributes food in a Rio de Janeiro slum Oct. 16, 2019. Ms. Froes believes the country’s judicial system systemically segregates Brazil’s poor and Black citizens into prisons.

    In late 2018, Evaldo dos Santos told his mother he was stepping out to buy bread for breakfast and would be back in a few minutes. Seven months passed before she saw him again.

    Walking through the winding back streets of Rocinha, one of Rio’s largest favelas, Mr. dos Santos was caught up in a shootout between drug traffickers and police. When the smoke cleared, police alleged he was part of the gang.

    He spent the next several months in Brazil’s overcrowded prison system waiting for the opportunity to prove his innocence – a story shared by hundreds of thousands of Brazilian inmates languishing in pretrial detention. “They make it so that if you are poor, you are stuck in prison. You don’t have money to pay for a good lawyer? To

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