
Woman praying at the Prison's Chapel.

Washing line at the prison's main courtyard.

Corridor leading to the main prison with over three hundered women.

Breno starting to walk at the prison's creche.



Wedding in Prison



"Smile, even if this is a sad smile, because the biggest sadness is not to be able to smile when you are free" Talavera Bruce Prison anonymous wall art. “This is a story about Talavera Bruce prison, one of the toughest women’s prisons in Brazil. This work offers a rare glimpse of intimate life inside the prison, showing tenderness, friendship, longing, loss, joy, survival, regrets and above all, a great sense of community. A wedding takes place in the prison’s chapel and babies are being born in the prison’s crèche. Women are praying for miracles...”