UN calls for strategies to cut down death rate in Brazil prisons

While assessing the recent outbreaks of violence that took place in several prison facilities throughout Brazil, Regional Representative for South America of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) Amerigo Incalcaterra said on Friday (Aug 29) that the country needs to reformulate its criminal policy, which is currently based on the act of “excessively depriving an individual of his/her liberty as a form of punishment for crimes”.