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 ...

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 ...

Rio De Janeiro-- Forty-two inmates were killed at three different prisons in the capital of Brazil's northern Amazonas state Monday, authorities reported, a day after 15 died during fighting among ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Former President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday temporarily left a prison in Brazil’s capital, where he’s serving a 27-year sentence for a coup attempt, for medical examinations in ...

RIO DE JANEIRO – Former President Jair Bolsonaro was granted a brief leave Wednesday from his 27-year prison sentence for a coup attempt so that he could undergo medical tests at a hospital in the ...