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  Risk factors, pathways and outcomes for youth released from juvenile detention centres in Sao Paulo, Brazil

  Child Rights Information Network, 2006

  What factors make young people in Brazil more or less likely to be put in prison, and what happens to them after incarceration? This report presents findings from a project that used surveys and interviews to investigate the experiences of over 300 young people aged 12 to 17 who had been incarcerated in juvenile detention centres in São Paulo.
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  Children in custody in Brazil

  The Lancet, 2006

  15 years after Brazil adopted one of Latin America's most progressive juvenile justice laws, substantially reflecting the guarantees contained in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the country's juvenile detention centres continue to be grossly deficient.This short article examines the state of juvenile justice in Brazil.
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  In the dark: hidden abuses against detained youths in Rio de Janeiro

  Human Rights Watch, 2005

  This report assesses the treatment of detained youth in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, according to international law, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and other international human rights instruments.The report finds that the children experience beatings and other physical abuse.
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  Cruel confinement: abuses against detained children in Northern Brazil

  Human Rights Watch, 2003

  This report is the findings of research into the conditions in 17 juvenile detention centres in northern Brazil.The report found that children in northern Brazil are routinely subjected to beatings by police and detained in centres that fail to safeguard their basic human rights. Once placed in juvenile detention centres, children may suffer further violence from other youths.