RIO DE JANEIRO — A Brazilian drug trafficker, who had attempted to escape from prison disguised as his teenage daughter, was found dead in his cell on Tuesday, officials said. Clauvino da Silva, ...

A Brazilian inmate, who went viral around the world for his attempt to escape prison disguised as his daughter, was found dead in his cell on Tuesday. Prison officials told CNN that Clauvino da Silva, ...

Forty-six inmates involved in one of Brazil's deadliest prison riots were being transferred to other jails on Tuesday, an official said. At least 57 people were killed Monday when fighting broke out ...

The 23-year-old Brazilian trans woman, who is currently serving a six-year sentence in the central prison for drug smuggling is being held in isolation in the high-security psychiatric unit of the ...

Bloodied and burned bodies were stacked in a concrete prison yard and piled in carts, an AFP photographer at the scene said. Rioting inmates decapitated their rivals in brutal fighting between two ...

SÃO PAULO – Repeated restrictions imposed by state governments and prison directors on the spiritual assistance provided to inmates in Brazil prompted the Bishops’ Conference to directly request help ...