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 ...

Brazilian Ex-Police Officers Get Decades in Prison for 2018 Murder of Rio Politician By Rodrigo Viga Gaier RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A Brazilian judge sentenced two former police officers to ...

Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window) The dismantling of the “canteen mafia,” which ...

Alcacuz is among the worst prisons in Brazil, but by no means an aberration. The problems here can be found across Latin America's largest nation, which is experiencing a wave of prison massacres ...

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'.

No prison is a great place to live in, but one maximum security on the border of Russia and Kazakstan is said to be the worst jail or prison in the region! It is beyond even the most strict ...

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.

Human Rights Watch associate director Kriti Sharma inspected BRP in 2016 and 2020, finding it "the worst prison" she had visited in Australia, due to its "extremely rundown infrastructure" and ...

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 ...