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CPP Feminino de São Miguel Paulista
Estabelecimento destinado ao cumprimento de pena em regime semiabertoClosedmaleClosed 2002LowHigh
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Historic São Paulo penitentiary. Site of the 1992 Carandiru massacre in which 111 inmates were killed by Military Police.
Background
Carandiru Penitentiary, officially São Paulo House of Detention (Portuguese: Casa de Detenção de São Paulo) was a penitentiary located in the North Zone of São Paulo, Brazil. It was inaugurated on April 21, 1920 and was built by the engineer-architect Samuel das Neves. The name Casa de Detenção (House of Detention) was given by federal interventor Ademar Pereira de Barros who, on December 5, 1938, by state decree 9,789, abolished the Cadeia Pública (Public Jail) and the PresÃdio PolÃtico da Capital (Political Prison of the Capital). This decree provided for the separation of first-time offenders from repeat offenders and the separation of prisoners based on the nature of their crime. It once housed more than eight thousand prisoners, and was considered the largest prison in Latin America at the time.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
152
Current population
0
Occupancy
—
Year opened
1956
Closed 2002
Figures from official sources · verified 30 May 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
male
Opened
1956
Region
São Paulo
Security level
Closed
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
Pre-closure: notorious for overcrowding (8,000+ inmates in design capacity for 2,500), inmate self-governance, and the 1992 massacre.
Visiting
Decommissioned in 2002 and partially demolished. Site is now part of Parque da Juventude.
Mailing
Not operational.
Practical info
Memorial and museum on the original site.
Known issues
Inter-American Court of Human Rights condemned Brazil in the Carandiru case (2016).
Notable inmates
Various Comando Vermelho and PCC senior members held in 1980s-1990s.
Contact & address
Rua Américo Gomes da Costa, 305-A, São Miguel Paulista, São Paulo 08010-120
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
5/100
Low concern5/100
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 5/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
What the score is responding to:
- · Mass-event keyword in sources (riot / massacre / uprising)
This facility scores 5. The national average across 3,565 scored Brazil facilities is 11 — 6 points below national average.
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Compared to other facilities in Brazil
3564 peersConditions risk scorethis: 5/100 · peers avg: 11/100 (56%)
Higher risk than 35% of peer facilities in Brazil.
Capacity (beds)this: 152 · peers avg: 337 (55%)
Data completeness
92%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Inter-American Court â Case of Carandiru
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Human Rights Watch â World Report — Human Rights Watch
- SISDEPEN â Sistema de Informações do DEPEN/SENAPPEN — Brazilian Ministry of Justice (SENAPPEN)
- Conselho Nacional de Justiça â Banco Nacional de Monitoramento de Prisões — Brazil National Council of Justice
- Wikidata (Q279605)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
Cite this page
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). CPP Feminino de São Miguel Paulista. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/carandiru
Chicago
"CPP Feminino de São Miguel Paulista." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/carandiru.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-carandiru,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {CPP Feminino de São Miguel Paulista},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/carandiru},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}