Brazil has the world's third-largest prison population with more than 700,000 ... In January 2017, in the worst jail violence in Amazonas state, 56 inmates were killed in Anísio Jobim prison.

Brazilian prisons are facing a "crisis" as a government crackdown on crime has sent prison numbers soaring by 33 per cent since 2008. New laws to reduce the age of criminal responsibility in ...

Apac prisons were set up by a group of Catholics in 1972 and are now co-ordinated and supported by the Italian non-governmental organisation AVSI Foundation and the Brazilian Fraternity of ...

SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO, July 30: A bloody clash between two prison gangs on Monday left at least 57 inmates dead with 16 of them decapitated, authorities in the state of Para said, the latest deadly ...