Jails in Brazil's Pernambuco state are lawless dens of iniquity being run by inmates who sell crack cocaine to prisoners and murder anyone who owes them money, an investigation has revealed.

Bosses in the state's overcrowded prisons are frightened of inmates and give the most dangerous ones called 'chaveiros' - or 'keyholders' - control over their cell block for them to 'maintain order'.

Drug lords: These men are known as keyholders (pictured, the keyholder of Pavilion 7 in PJALLB prison) because they literally hold the keys to prison blocks where they are tasked with 'maintaining order'

The authorities give the job to convicted murderers, rapists and drug dealers because they 'command respect from fellow inmates', a jailbird told charity Human Rights Watch (HRW), who reported on the four Pernambuco prisons, where there is one guard for 31 inmates.

It found chaveiros-run jails are hell holes where disease is rife, vulnerable ones are gang raped and relatives outside are blackmailed into paying off inmates' drug debts.

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wow

S.O.N.A

If this was the sort of prison our corrupt government officials were held, the rate of corruption would drastically reduce!

toughest prison but the wear better clothes and shoes

Thought they said cell blocks over seas looks better than a sitting room in Nigeria?

OMG! Look at their rugged hospital in that place...Is that a dead on the floor?