He raped the young Albanian girl, this is how Robinho's new life is now in the prison considered 'hell on earth'

Robinho, a Real Madrid player from 2005 to 2008, is serving a 9-year sentence in the Brazilian prison system (described as "hell on earth") for gang-raping a young Albanian girl in Milan in 2013.

The former Brazilian footballer, now 40, who throughout his successful football career played for Santos, Real Madrid, Manchester City, Milan, Guangzhou Evergrande, Atlético Mineiro, Sivasspor and Istambul Baakehir FK, is adjusting to his new life behind bars.

The Sun newspaper reports that Robinho is completing a 600-hour basic electronics course in prison. The course is part of a prison work program created by the Universal Brazilian Institute to teach inmates new skills in preparation for their upcoming release.

"It's hard to say whether he's enjoying it or not, but the course is helping him pass the time," Robinho's lawyer explained. After this course, Robinho, who played 100 matches with Brazil's national team and earned more than 70 million euros throughout his career, will be able to repair televisions, radios and other electronic equipment in prison.

Mario Rosso Vale, Robinho's lawyer, confirmed that the former footballer has been a model prisoner since he was jailed in March: "Robinho keeps his head down and walks forward calmly. He is an exemplary prisoner, there has been no problems with other prisoners".

The lawyer revealed that Robinho was given some football boots to take part in the small games organized in the prison. Robinho entered an overcrowded Brazilian prison system, which highlights overcrowding conditions. This system has been called in the press as "hell on earth" (prisoners have had their heads cut off, there are vicious drug lords, bathrooms with holes in the floor, poor sanitary conditions, sexual violence...)

A Human Rights Watch report on Brazil's prisons denounced insufficient funding to maintain existing detention facilities and highlighted their decay.

"Overcrowding is a major problem in Brazil's prisons and nowhere is it worse than in Pernambuco. The state has locked up tens of thousands of people in wards designed for a third of that number and handed over the keys to prisoners who use violence and intimidation to manage prison environments like personal fiefdoms," explained María Laura Canineu, director of " Human Rights Watch".

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