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, 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 ...

A 17-hour riot at a Brazilian prison between gangs fighting for control of drug sales resulted in scores of deaths and a ...

The initial riot at the Anisio Jobim Penitentiary Complex in the state capital, Manaus, was followed by uprisings at two other prisons. In all, 184 inmates escaped from two prisons in Amazonas state ...

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 ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Thursday vetoed a bill that could reduce the 27-year prison sentence of his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro for the far-right leader’s ...