Drugs, booze and violence in Brazil prisons revealed in cell videos

BRASÍLIA: Inmates lining up to snort cocaine, booze-fueled parties, and brazen escapes: these unfiltered images from inside Brazil’s prisons are offering outsiders a graphic picture of the anarchic conditions in one of the world’s most populous penitentiary systems.

Surviving Brazil’s prisons is certainly not a given. Nine inmates were murdered—some burned to death, others beheaded—in a riot in a prison in the state of Goias on New Year’s Day.