Clauvino da Silva, a drug dealer from the city of Angra dos Reis, was caught by prison guards at the Bangu jail complex in Rio state on Saturday, as he tried to exit A Brazilian gang leader tried ...

A reporter was allowed access inside one of El Salvador's most notorious prisons - and was left shocked ... which houses heavily tattooed criminals dubbed 'worst of the worst'.

The 2024 elections in Brazil were marked by a significant repudiation of the political establishment, evidenced by a record ...

Many lament the number of Americans in prison. “Our nation holds the shameful distinction of being the world’s largest jailer,” said Senator Cory Booker in a representative statement last year.

Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. Moving people around at my prison is such a common tactic that it seems to be a driving force of the ...

The "kicked out of show business" comedian made the move after the election of Donald Trump The post Ellen DeGeneres Has ...

The Red Command (Comando Vermelho – CV) is Brazil’s oldest criminal group. Created in a Rio de Janeiro prison in the 1970s as a self-protection group for prisoners, it started out with low-level ...

With the biggest population and online audience in Latin America, Brazil is simultaneously the fifth-largest social media market worldwide, the second largest within the Americas, and by far the ...

Brazil's federal police have formally accused 37 people for their alleged involvement in a coup attempt and other crimes, it said in a statement on Thursday, without naming those accused. Reuters ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE - Former President Jair Bolsonaro addresses supporters during a rally in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Feb. 25 ...