Brazil prison vote rules let Daniel Vorcaro, the jailed owner of Banco Master, choose a president from Papuda on 4 October.

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SÃO PAULO—A Brazilian gang founded in the country’s violent prisons is fast becoming one of the world’s biggest criminal organizations, reshaping global cocaine flows from South America to Europe’s ...

A gang born in Brazil's brutal prison system is no longer just a domestic security threat. The Primeiro Comando da Capital, or PCC, has evolved into a sprawling transnational criminal organization ...

Rioting inmates beheaded rivals and burned others alive in an explosion of violence in two Brazilian jails that left at least 18 people dead on Monday, the authorities said. Prisoners also took women ...

Brazilian authorities said that the inmates responsible for the killings of 60 rivals at two prisons in the Amazon region will be transferred to high-security federal institutions in addition to being ...

A Brazilian prison gang that once fought for soap and mattresses now has a North American division. In the Wall Street Journal, Samantha Pearson charts how Brazil's First Capital Command, or PCC, has ...

Who knew geese could work in prison security? In Brazil, one facility does exactly that. The São Pedro de Alcântara Penitentiary has put the birds on perimeter duty to keep escapes in check. Strange ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) -On paper, former President Jair Bolsonaro has been sentenced to prison until the age of 97. In fact, legal experts say the ex-president is unlikely to spend more than a fraction of ...