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 ...
SAO PAULO (Reuters) - The killing of 56 inmates by fellow prisoners in Brazil's deadliest jail uprising in decades was a "butchery foretold" by escalating turf wars between drug gangs that threatens ...