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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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'.

Instead, it is considered as one of the worst prisons in Thailand. It is important to note that foreign prisoners, usually incarcerated for smuggling, have an even harder time in Bang Kwang than ...

On November 21st Brazilian police formally accused Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil’s former far-right president, and 36 others of attempting to prevent Brazil’s newly elected government from taking office.

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 ...

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