Brazil has the world's third-largest ... Wilson Lima said that the justice ministry would send a "prison intervention team" to Manaus. In the past, rival gangs have been separated within prisons ...

The Trump administration’s first flight deporting Brazilians involved aborted takeoffs, sweltering heat, emergency exits and ...

A 17-hour riot at a Brazilian prison between gangs fighting for control of drug sales resulted in scores of deaths and a manhunt for escapees. The Manaus prison was filled to over double its ...

A number of inmates at a jail in the northern Brazilian city of Belem have died during an attempted mass breakout. They were aided by an armed group outside the jail which used explosives against ...

The wife of a prisoner who was killed in a prison riot, cries outside the Anisio Jobim Penitentiary Complex in Manaus, Brazil, Monday, Jan. 2, 2017 Source: Futura Press ...