A sentence reduction programme encourages inmates to immerse themselves in literary works in exchange for reducing their ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil aims to build nearly 30 prisons over the next year to ease chronic overcrowding in its penitentiary system as part of a package of emergency measures to tackle a wave of ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — At least 52 inmates were killed in a prison riot in northern Brazil on Monday as rival gang factions fought each other, an official said. Sixteen of the dead were decapitated ...

The bloodshed began when inmates of one wing of the Agricola de Monte Cristo prison broke into another wing. At least 25 inmates died in clashes between two rival factions in a prison in far northern ...

RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Police put down a new uprising at a prison in northeastern Brazil where 26 inmates were killed by a rival gang faction over the weekend and questioned five drug ...

Brazil's government is relocating gang bosses tied to a weekend prison riot that left 56 inmates dead and is the country's deadliest in nearly 25 years. The inmates believed to be responsible for a ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — When 33-year-old Brazilian woman Emily de Souza heard about a program allowing her to shave off four days from her prison sentence by reading a book, she seized the opportunity to ...

Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro was transferred to prison on Thursday to begin serving a 27-year sentence for orchestrating a failed coup, under conditions described by a court as “more ...