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Intro. The São Paulo Detention House, known as Carandiru, functions as a city isolated from the outside world, with its own rules, well-defined hierarchies and a social dynamic that is reorganized every day to maintain the balance between survival and power. Nothing there depends solely on official authority. The bars, gates and agents represent state control, but the real daily life is managed by the prisoners themselves, who have created an internal system based on respect, reputation and belonging. Within this space, each gesture is observed, each word has consequences and each choice defines the place someone occupies. Overcrowding turns the environment into a living organism. The galleries are always full, the cells house many more men than they were designed to handle, and the constant heat makes everything more irritable and unpredictable. The noise never completely disappears. Radios play at the same time, conversations cross the floors, someone calls for another prisoner

Carandiru (film)

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