Brazil's Minister of Justice, Márcio Thomaz Bastos, and the director of the Department of Federal Penitentiaries, Maurício Kuehne, will inaugurate today the country's first maximum security prison in Catanduva, Paraná state.

The prison has 12,600 square meters and a capacity for 208 inmates who will be submitted to what is called the Differentiated Disciplinary Regime (RDD).

The regime, used for dangerous inmates and gang leaders, seeks to keep them isolated while reducing tension in the prison.

Another four new maximum security prisons will soon be inaugurated. Campo Grande, state of Mato Grosso do Sul and Mossoró, in Rio Grande do Norte, will be ready before the end of this year; and two more, in Porto Velho, Roraima, and the state of Espírito Santo, will be ready in 2007.

Each of the new prisons costs US$ 10 million (20 million reais).

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Funny !
written by Guest, June 23, 2006

Quite funny that a country with a population of 190 millions, a country with one of the highest violences and crimes on the planet, will open the FIRST Maximum Security Prison......in 2006 !!!!

Were where the most dangerous criminals....so far ??????
On Holidays jails ?????

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written by Guest, June 24, 2006

not only that, but rapists, murderers, the most dangerous criminals in brazil, are given "holiday passes" to go to their homes during holidays such as christmas and others!!

No electronic ankle bracelets, nothing to keep track of them....they're on their "honor" to come back to prison once the holiday is over!!

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