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If I Give My Soul: Pentecostalism in the Prisons of Rio A shocking, educational, eye-opening, 58-minute, 2014 documentary that uses interviews with former inmates (such as Messias Santos, Sued Perura, Marco Naciaminto, Jorge-Luiz Da Silva Araujo, Carlos Nunes, evangelist pastor Lucio Camara, and pastor Elizeu Santos), current inmates Joas Das Santos and Cristiano Silva Da Oliveira, professor of criminal justice Dr. Elizabeth Sussekind, professor of anthropology Dr. Ana Paula Miranda, policia civil deputy Orlando Zarcone, Rio de Paz president and Presbyterian pastor Antonio Carlos Costa, sociologist Dr. Andrew Johnson at the Center for Religion and Civic Culture, and Religion & Politics in Global Context CIGI Chair Dr. Paul Freston to examine the hellish, oppressive, unsanitary conditions that more than 400,000 prisoners endure in Brazilian prisons, which are used as punishment not rehabilitation and controlled by gangs such as Red Command and Third Command, and how the inmates turn to religion to build camaraderie, faith, loyalty, and hope among the inmates.   Redhead: Year: 2015 Rating:  NR View If I Give My Soul: Pentecostalism in the Prisons of Rio on the Internet Movie Database