O n September 11th Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court (STF) convicted hard-right former president Jair Bolsonaro of attempting a ...

The world spends hundreds of billions yearly to punish offenders, with little return beyond more crime and less hope. DW ...

For members of the Brazilian Academy of Prison Letters, the case is about free speech: “After all, a prison sentence doesn’t strip the person from other fundamental rights.” ...

Inmates set fire to one of the cellblocks before escaping from the Penitentiary Progression Center, a semi-open prison in the town of Bauru, northwest of Sao Paulo, the national prisons authority ...

SAO PAULOSAO PAULO — Inmates have devised an innovative way to smuggle in cell phones into a prison farm in Brazil: carrier pigeons. Guards at the Danilio Pinheiro prison near the southeastern ...

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has briefly left his home in Brasilia where he is under house arrest to undergo a medical procedure at a nearby hospital ...

Gruesome violence at a prison in the northwestern city of Manaus killed about 60 inmates on January 1. Prisoners use makeshift shields as riot police fire rubber bullets during a rebellion at the ...