SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Twenty-seven inmates were killed in a Brazilian prison riot that broke out on Saturday, adding to chaos in a penitentiary system in which some 140 inmates have died in gang ...
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 ...
ALTAMIRA, Brazil (Reuters) - Odijane Mota still cannot make sense of her son Efraim's gruesome death in a Brazilian jail. The 22 year old was one of dozens of inmates killed during prison riots in the ...