Rogério da Silva and Deibson Cabral are the first inmates to escape from Brazil's federal prison system The fugitives broke out of the Mossoró Federal Penitentiary on February 14 The suspects ...

Former President Jair Bolsonaro said he won’t flee Brazil if sentenced to prison, a week after a judge barred him from traveling to Donald Trump’s inauguration amid investigations into an alleged coup ...

The authorities are now trying to determine if any of the prisoners managed to escape. Last year 56 people were killed in an uprising in a prison in the city of Manaus in Brazil's Amazon region.

The former Brazilian president, squeezed by criminal investigations, looks to the United States to shift his nation’s ...

Since then, however, their political paths have dramatically diverged.

If criminals in the prison tried to escape by swimming from the island, they would attract sharks. The facility earned the moniker “Brazil’s Alcatraz,” due to the similarity with the ...

Guards had apparently foiled an attempted prison escape. In May this year ... reinforcements to boost security in the jails. Brazil has the world's third-largest prison population after the ...

Cavalcante is also wanted for murder in Brazil. Officials are warning ... Residents of a six-mile (9km) radius around the prison were notified of the escape and warned to be extremely cautious.

Brazil's Supreme Federal Court (STF) Thursday handed down prison sentences to three defendants involved in the Jan. 8 riots in Brasilia during which the headquarters of the country's three ...

despite the fact that the former leader is currently serving a 12-year prison sentence for graft. Why Brazil’s Lula is still so popular Brazil’s ex-president Lula loses bribery appeal Jair ...

According to data from the Igarapé Institute, almost half of the female prison population in Brazil is between 18 and 29 years old and about 70% are black women.