A Brazilian Convict’s Path From Poverty to ‘a Very Dark Place’: ‘”This is a shadowy place,” Mr. Dias said, stirring from his

reverie. “Fear lives inside every prisoner. Anyone who

denies that is lying. Fear of the violence. Fear of this

all-male darkness. Fear you will never get out. But I talk to

God every day and ask him to see me through.”‘[New York Times]