A Brazilian prison gang that once fought for soap and mattresses now has a North American division. In the Wall Street ...

A sentence reduction programme encourages inmates to immerse themselves in literary works in exchange for reducing their ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — 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 ...

BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil aims to build nearly 30 prisons over the next year to ease chronic overcrowding in its penitentiary system as part of a package of emergency measures to tackle a wave of ...