Brazilian inmates generate pedal power
Prisoners in a Santa Rita do Sapucai, Brazil, jail keep the wheels turning, eight hours a day, seven days a week on several stationary bikes that are hooked up to portable batteries. The batteries light up the humble boardwalk along this small country town's river each night. For every three days of doing stints on the bikes, the men shave one day off their sentences. Full story
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