Brazil has the world's third-largest prison population with more than 700,000 ... In January 2017, in the worst jail violence in Amazonas state, 56 inmates were killed in Anísio Jobim prison.

The "canteen mafia," which controlled food distribution in Rio de Janeiro's prisons, highlights the presence of criminal ...

Apac prisons were set up by a group of Catholics in 1972 and are now co-ordinated and supported by the Italian non-governmental organisation AVSI Foundation and the Brazilian Fraternity of ...

OFFICIALS said today that Brazil had broken up a deforestation gang which the authorities considered the worst offenders operating in the ... If convicted, the suspects face more than 50 years in ...