Peripheral voices, rhymes engaged in contemporary Brazil

Abstract

In 1992, the Brazilian prison community suffered the mourning of 111 dead - mostly black men - perpetrated during the massacre at the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo, Carandiru. The accursed episode promoted scenes of terror that shed light on the situation of prisons in Brazil, thus revealing the perverse faces of the hoax programmed by the political-economic prescription adopted in the last decades of the 20th century in the country.