Decarceral Archetypes / Arquétipos Decarcerais: Rio de Janeiro as a Model Laboratory for the Abolition of Prison-Based Torture

This chapter critically maps policies to confront mass incarceration in the city of Rio de Janeiro, focusing on measures to prevent and combat torture. Prison systems in Rio de Janeiro are commonly described as spaces for human rights violations. The chapter explores the struggle between the prison and civil society–based anti-torture organizations, specifically the State Mechanism for Preventing and Combating Torture in Rio de Janeiro. This is a pioneer technical laboratory for the promotion of public security policies at a global level, with an analytical method applicable to the eradication of torture in asylum spaces, and influences prison abolition activism.