A former president convicted of plotting a coup is now eligible to shorten his prison sentence in Brazil by reading books.

On Jan. 15, 2026, Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered that incarcerated ex-President Jair Bolsonaro be given a significant upgrade in his prison accomodations. Perhaps not a ...

Police and soldiers are being deployed in large numbers to Brazil's northeast to fight a wave of gang violence fueled by the overloaded, collapsing prison system. More than 400 elite federal troops ...

The bloodshed began when inmates of one wing of the Agricola de Monte Cristo prison broke into another wing. At least 25 inmates died in clashes between two rival factions in a prison in far northern ...

Relatives of inmates react in front of Desembargador Raimundo Vidal Pessoa jail in the center of the Amazonian city of Manaus, Brazil, January 8, 2017 (Reuters/Michael Dantas). Prison violence has ...