Abusive Body Searches - When innocents are treated as prisoners.
In Brazil, when prisoners’ relatives go visit them in jail, they often suffer from physical and mental harm caused
by abuses carried out by prison officers. This is known as ABUSIVE BODY SEARCHES.
To bring awareness of this issue to the public, together with the human rights NGO Conectas, we created an audio-guided
exhibition that allowed people to live through this harrowing experience. A few months after our campaign, the senate finally
passed the law banning intimate body searches in Brazilian Prisons.
