Children in northern Brazil are routinely subjected to beatings by police and detained in centers that fail to safeguard their basic human rights. Once placed in juvenile detention centers, children may suffer further violence from other youths. They are often confined to their cells for lengthy periods of time, with potentially serious consequences for their emotional well-being.
Many detained youths do not receive an education and are not offered other opportunities to develop the skills they will need to lead satisfying and productive lives as adults. Girls often lack basic medical care and have fewer opportunities than boys for exercise, recreation, and other activities. These facilities included seven that were exclusively for sentenced youths, one for youths sentenced to the lesser sanction of "semiliberty" a measure that youths serve in facilities similar to halfway houses , one nonresidential facility for youths sentenced to probation libertade assistida , and four pretrial detention centers.
The remaining five facilities, including the four girls' detention centers we inspected, held youth under sentence as well as those in pretrial detention.
Beatings at the hands of police during and after arrest are common, we found. Such abuses often occur at police stations, where Brazilian law allows children to be held for up to five days while they await transfer to a juvenile detention facility. In rural areas, where police routinely violate the five-day limit on detention in police lockups, children are at greater risk of abuse by police.
Once these children are transferred to detention centers, they must often endure further violence from state military police. The state military police-which, despite their name, are subject to civilian control-ensure the external security of detention centers, quell riots and other disturbances, respond to escape attempts, and routinely conduct cell searches.
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