The current article exposes an analysis of the recent events which have happened to occur in Manaus, the capital of Amazonas, a north Brazilian state. A butchery killed 56 inmates at “Complexo Penitenciária Anísio Jobim”, a Brazilian penitentiary, a unity that shelters around one thousand people, and has passed through this rebellion that murdered and injured several prisoners. This paper aims to analyze how the massacre in Manaus’ prison accentuates the systemic crisis found in Brazilian penitentiaries and what are the international normative provisions regarding the human rights that it violates, using the descriptive-explanatory method and the international human rights law as theoretical framework. In concordance of it, it was quite clear to identify a systemic crisis in the Brazilian institutions which led to the one in the penitentiary system. Despite of all the violations to the human dignity the State propagates within its territory, especially with the prison population, the Brazilian Government hasn’t been hold accountable for the several deaths that occurred due to its negligence over its prisoners
