Beauty Pageants In The Brazilian Jail

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Beauty pageants raises awareness to not only the world but as to themselves in different scenarios. According to Broadly, the largest Brazilian prison held a beauty pageant to help raise awareness to the women in jail. One prisoner said “ Because we are women. Just the fact we get to feel beautiful after being in this place (jail) for so long.”(Video Name). In the prisons people are given a chance to feel powerful, given the chance to show their ( the women in the Brazilian jail ) beauty for the chance to feel beautiful after a long time. The fact that 80 percent of men come back to jail after some time but 5 percent of women come back at the same time usually because of no herself but other (family, friends. men) is devastating. “The main

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