In yet another wise move to both improve the future lives of their prisoners as well as their society, Brazil has started allowing its inmates to use stationary bikes to generate electricity.
As the inmates pedal on these bikes, they get some much needed exercise, and as an added benefit, they provide the electricity to light up the riverside promenade at Santa Rita do Sapucai in the mountains north of Sao Paulo. The area, one which has long been abandoned after dark, has been revived thanks to the pedaling prisoners.
Prison Director Gilson Rafael Silva told EuroNews that after every 3 days of work on the stationary bike, the prisoners sentence is reduced by 1 day.
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