Forty-six inmates involved in one of Brazil's deadliest prison riots were being transferred to other jails on Tuesday, an official said. At least 57 people were killed Monday when fighting broke out ...

The 23-year-old Brazilian trans woman, who is currently serving a six-year sentence in the central prison for drug smuggling is being held in isolation in the high-security psychiatric unit of the ...

This article, written by Rafael Ciscati, was originally published on the Brasil de Direitos website on July 3, 2025. An edited version is republished on Global Voices under a partnership agreement. It ...

SÃO PAULO – Repeated restrictions imposed by state governments and prison directors on the spiritual assistance provided to inmates in Brazil prompted the Bishops’ Conference to directly request help ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A group of Brazilian women behind bars applied makeup, donned gowns and competed in a singing contest ...

The violence broke out in a semi-open part of the penitentiary when "C-Block invaded the other wings and started brutal acts against their rivals," he said. The riot occurred on Monday in the Complejo ...

The deplorable conditions inside the nineteenth-century Cândido Mendes — long known among inmates as the “Cauldron of Hell” — pushed prisoners to organize in resistance, da Silva Lima wrote in his ...