SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Twenty prisoners are often stacked in a cell designed for five. Inmates, who on paper have a right to trial within 81 days, routinely stew in prison for six or seven months, or ...
Relatives of inmates react in front of Desembargador Raimundo Vidal Pessoa jail in the center of the Amazonian city of Manaus, Brazil, January 8, 2017 (Reuters/Michael Dantas). Prison violence has ...
Forty-six inmates involved in one of Brazil's deadliest prison riots were being transferred to other jails on Tuesday, an official said. At least 57 people were killed Monday when fighting broke out ...
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has temporarily left a prison in Brasilia for medical examinations after hitting his head RIO DE JANEIRO -- Former President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday temporarily ...
The 23-year-old Brazilian trans woman, who is currently serving a six-year sentence in the central prison for drug smuggling is being held in isolation in the high-security psychiatric unit of the ...
BRASILIA, Brazil — Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday started his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt, to the surprise of many in the South American nation who doubted ...